I apologize for the delay in getting the next post out. I can assure you the CIA hasn’t had me assassinated. At least not yet, you never know what madness the US will try next.

Speaking of CIA sponsored assassination teams, what if I told you the former terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden actually did something right?

I’m not going to try to defend his actions, that would be impossible. Instead, I’m going to tell you how to take a lesson out of his play book to help you keep a low profile.

I’ve been exposed to some pretty shocking things about human behavior in my life. As a result, I’ve become pretty callous to most of the insanity I see every day in the world around me.

One of the things that never fails to blow my mind is how happy people are to trade their privacy for “free” stuff. Everyone wants free stuff. It’s human nature to want to minimize our costs.

We often don’t realize what we are trading for those free services. Companies don’t provide services for free out of the kindness of their heart. Someone has to be paying the bills!

If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product being sold.

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Before I do any security consulting, I make sure the first thing I go over with a client is principles. Of the principles, this is the most important. In fact, everything about computer security stems from this one simple question:

Who’s out to get you?

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