iSD in the Tech Age!



Net-self-defense, we spend an exorbitant amount of time on our physical defense training and then we forget that our lives are in just as much danger of "Grave Financial Harm" or Financial ruin (Death) as if we are attacked by a street predator. Research and studies show, from the security experts in this field, that Anti-virus and Firewall suites only catch about 5% of the threats out there and those same folks tell us that it is in all probability worse at the Enterprise levels.


My goal here is to educate myself, and by proxy, pass on what I learn to others so that each individual who is connected at any level can take steps to achieve some semblance of security in their electronic on-line lives. We are so deeply imbedded in modern technology that to not take appropriate actions to learn iSD or internet self-defense in the technological age is just foolishness.


My goal is to provide enough of a foundation that readers, like me, can take the appropriate actions, i.e., apply those fundamental principles of technological methodologies to safeguard one of the more important, actually critical, strategies and tactics to defend ourselves from grave economical harm or even economical/financial death or ruin from nefarious predatory hacking processes.


Nothing in this blog is definitive, it is meant to set a foundation of knowledge, understanding and awareness so that you are not one day blindsided by some effort to steal your very life out from underneath you so fast you feel like you have been hit behind the ear and knocked into a daze of confusion, fear and finally anger where your tech-life falls apart and ruins your real life utterly, completely and with no light in sight down that dark, empty and black hole.


Monday, March 28, 2016

A Thread: Are We Truly Safe

Can we truly be safe and can we ever go back to being safe?

The short answer is, "No!"

The very moment we plugged in to the eVerse, even back in those very early days, we all created a thread, even a very slight thread, we established a way and means for the very adept and clever to connect and pull that very thread.

The only question that remains then is, "Can we establish a security posture to reduce our exposure to be relatively safe?"

The short answer is, "No!"

The same goes here as well, once you put yourself out there it resides somewhere, everywhere, on the Internet and it is open to others for your entire life. You can still protect yourself by taking on a proactive state of security that will, at the very least, reduce your exposure significantly and reduce your possible exposure to criminal activity to a smaller footprint. Sorry, I wish there were some way to extract all the personal and financial date on yourself along with closing the doors to nefarious activities but the entire Internet Industry is based almost exclusively on your opening that door and exposing yourself to every single person, be they good guys or black hats or from Crime, inc.

All I can say is this, “The gate is open, the world is exposed, you are standing pretty much naked and with all you value sitting at your bare feet for all to see and all to access and all to take because your hands and feet and mouth are pretty much bound tightly by things like ToS’s, data mining by data brokers and so on, etc., etc., …


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