Make Your Property Ownership Information Confidential

Currently, many states in the US make it super easy for anyone to search for your home address and find out information about where you live, what your home is valued, your tax information, the size of your home, your mailing address and more. With identity theft and other violent crimes being as pervasive as they are, there are ways to protect your family, make yourself more private and less of a target.

When it comes to property, such as land or homes, one of the best ways to construct a barrier between yourself and those who are searching for you (solicitors, criminals, nosy neighbors and others), is to put your property into a trust or LLC. The downside to this plan is that trusts and LLCs require time and money. For example, you may need to hire an attorney to create an LLC for your property (contact us if you want help with this – we have an easier, faster way to do this), and in many cases you must own the property outright in order to create such a legal umbrella (the bank cannot own the property).

A quicker, cheaper and easier way to gain a new layer of privacy between your property and your identity is to request confidentiality status for the property. How do you make your property information confidential, avoiding the prying eyes of snoops and bad guys? Your properties information is typically managed and maintained by a county appraisal district (CAD). For example, if you purchase a property, you are required to have a registered surveyor conduct a survey of the property boundaries which will be recorded legally by the CAD in your county or district. The CAD keeps hardcopies of your property survey with details of who owns the property (through county records), and also posts information about the property on their website, which is typically available to the public.

If you don’t want others to be able to view your property ownership information on the CAD website or request copies of the information, you must make a request through the CAD for property confidentiality status. Normally, this requires that the owner complete a request form and submit it to the CAD for review. It is important to note that in some places there may be limitations to what information remains confidential and who is eligible to apply for property confidentiality status. In some states, the information will be completely blocked from the website and not available for anyone but law enforcement. In addition, in the state that I live in, for example, only individuals such as law enforcement, military, judges and victims of family violence may apply for confidentiality status. However, it never hurts to apply, even if you think you might not be eligible. I contacted the CAD in my area and was told that no proof of status (law enforcement or other) was required to be submitted with the application (other states may require verification). Did I mention that the applications are, in many cases, free?!

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USB Killers: What You Need To Know

The USB killer is quickly growing in fame.  The small device that fits into regular USB ports and rapidly kills the motherboard of the device is said to work on 95% of computers.  This device is loaded with capacitors that pull in electricity from the host device and then release a rapid electric pulse that will fry anything on the receiving end. 

This happens in about 1-3 seconds and the job is done!

But, not so fast with thinking this solves everything.  I have included a video below that shows the USB Killer in action on a variety of devices.  Some computer companies have already made internal preparations for this kind of attack, so it is not 100% effective.

In the video below all devices did in fact have the port itself fried and data shut down.  So it’s useful to some degree for sure.  If you have to use this device you are already in trouble.  With the cloud in full swing these days, what you have done will probably not just be stored on the device in your hands.  Just keep in mind this is a handy device and it could buy you some time.

Here’s the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pP8TLwO_Ks

Here is the USB Kill site where you can buy one for about $50 if you order it out of the UK:  https://www.usbkill.com/order?ipa=8

If you want to pay around $80 you can order off of ebay.com .  There are many sellers.

Prepare yourself for a Venezuelan Style Collapse

Venezuela, once the richest country in Latin America, is now collapsing.  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuelas-currency-hyper-inflation-oil-crisis-devalued-shop-keepers-weigh-notes-a7443596.html

The Venezuelan money (called “bolivar”) is in hyperinflation.   The largest bolivar bill is now worth 5 cents or less.  Some reports are saying 2 cents.  Store shelves are literally empty and hundreds of thousands of people are having to cross the border into Columbia to get food. http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/05/news/economy/venezuela-new-20000-bolivar-note/

This is a great time for us all to pay attention.  In my opinion this is a test case/social experiment in progress.  If the powerful and wealthy are using this as a study on how you will react when they do this to you, then you should pay close attention to this so you can be ready.

Right now Venezuelans are experiencing a real life nightmare.  They are having to choose between feeding themselves, their children or their pets.  Some may blame this on socialism, and that is a huge factor, but when it gets down to the single human element, each individual is in trouble because they put their faith in a currency.  It’s not the paper, it’s the currency itself.  If it was all electronic things may have been even worse.

How Would you Fare in this Situation?

In my humble opinion there are 3 things an intelligent Venezuelan should be doing right now, and this will apply to you in your country when your currency fails.

1. If they were wise, they would have already invested part of their portfolio in cold hard gold or silver. If this were the case, they could just get up and walk, but that’s #3 on this list.
2. They should gather all hard assets such as jewelry, and gold/silver bullion (I would include guns if available). Take any large items of value and quickly attempt to trade them for smaller hard assets like gold/silver and valuable jewelry.
3. Get out of the country as soon as possible. Those wishing to exit must understand that there is limited time because everybody else is leaving too.  The neighboring countries soon grow tired of refugees, so the sooner the better.

These solutions apply to any country any time a collapse takes place.  Don’t worry, if you love it , you can come back any time when things are better.

Your comments or suggestions are welcome.

How Safe are your Wi-Fi Connections and Apps?

When you have your cell phone or other smart device with you the NSA is watching.  We all know that but sometimes we need to be reminded.  Keep in mind that there are no known exceptions to this rule.  If there was one I would be skeptical, but if you have to have a phone, why not get the most secure phone possible?

After reading and hearing all of the negatives posted about the Black Phone from Silent Circle I am still a supporter.  I think many of the negative reports are coming from competitors and sold out individuals who care more about the quality of their “selfies” than they do about being watched by data mining corporations and foreign governments.

I will concede that the Black Phone is not exactly what I would build.  For example: I don’t think a camera belongs on a phone at all, unless it is self-contained in its own compartment with zero internet capability. However, I commend Silent Circle for their innovation in the areas of Wi-Fi and App security.

Wi-Fi Connections

The Black Phone has the capability of automatically shutting off Wi-Fi when you leave the range of your current connection.  This is a no nonsense security measure but it doesn’t serve corporate greed.  On most phones, when you leave your current Wi-Fi network, your phone will continue to search for another.  This is dangerous.  Even if you don’t like the Black Phone please keep your phone on Airplane mode if you are not using it in a secure area of your choosing.

Apps

When you sign up for most apps, there is a multi-page agreement that nobody wants to read.  Within that agreement you give up your privacy, but most people do it because they want the app.  With the Black Phone there is a way to get many apps without giving the corporate bullies access to your camera and contacts list.

I realize this seems like a commercial but I am not being paid by Silent Circle.  It just seems like a decent product they are producing here in a world that knows nothing but theft and fleecing of consumers.  Below I have an interview from 2014 about the qualities of the Black Phone.  There is now a Black Phone 2 with even more features and sells for just under $600.

Check it out if you wish to boost privacy, but keep in mind you are never 100% safe on a phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtSNAD4JJY

 

The Cash Genocide Has Started

A currency genocide has begun world wide, and the first shot has been fired in India. This began in India just a few weeks ago, and may be spreading to the United States.

Citizens of India learned, with only a few hours’ notice, that their 500 and 1,000-rupee notes were no longer legal tender. Those are—or were—the country’s largest-denomination bills and the foundation of a huge underground economy. Now they’re just paper. The results were what you would expect: confusion, chaos, and fear. – Forbes.com [http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2016/12/01/indias-demonetization-could-be-the-first-cash-domino-to-fall/#714a9eb713bb]

Most people still use cash for transactions, whether it be to buy a soda at a corner store, sell items at a garage sale or to purchase vegetables at a farmer’s market. Yet cash is now under fire from central banks worldwide. The banks don’t like cash because they cannot control it and tax it. So they feel they must get rid of it, and they make ridiculous excuses as to why they should get rid of cash: it’s too easily counterfeited, it’s part of the drug money laundering trade and many more excuses – all of which are absurd and without merit.

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers published an article last week stating that “nothing in the Indian experience gives us pause in recommending that no more large notes be created in the United States, Europe, and around the world. In other words, despite the India chaos, Summers thinks we should still curtail the $100 bill.” – Sovereignman.com

Imagine what it would be like if we couldn’t use the $50 or $100 bills. Despite what the talking head economists say, inflation is rampant in the US. Anyone who’s been buying bread and milk for the last 10 years or more can tell you the price is much higher now then it was then. This is inflation at it’s core. The need for larger bills has never been higher with inflation chipping away at our incomes, yet the banks want to get rid of cash. It’s madness!

America has always been about freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom to speak out and be represented, and economic freedom. Yet our freedoms truly are under fire every day. What will you do to protect your freedoms?

Erase Yourself From The Internet!

You may not know this, but there is a way to remove every trace of yourself from the internet. And it can be done very inexpensively, perhaps free of cost (at least for now)! Many like minded people are tired of the endless government and internet spying conducted by ruthless corporations like Google and Facebook. Despite some of the freedom and anonymity that the internet may have initially offered in it’s early life, it now has been slowly tightening it’s tyrannical noose on all of it’s users – demanding more information of us, harvesting and storing our data and using it against the citizenry.

And now there’s a more organized way to remove yourself from the online prison matrix that is the world wide web. Read more here: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/11/24/delete-internet/

You are the hope! Make a change for the better today.

 

Go F**k Yourself Judge!: Woman tells Judge “Go F**K Yourself” Was this necessary?

  Local governments are typically big enemies of personal privacy from all angles.  They don’t like private property, private travel, private ownership of personal property or even self improvement on private property.

     Recently I found a commentary on the video of a local Ellis County Texas resident addressing the unearned raise of a county judge to $70,000 per year.  Amy Hedkte ended her presentation to the Ellis county commissioner’s court by telling Judge Carol Bush to “take your insane expensive pay raise, buy a huge dildo and… go f**k yourself.”

     While I commend Mrs. Hedkte for her courage in facing the establishment and I also agree that a county judge should not be earning more than many of the struggling families across America, I must admonish her tactics.  Many people are angry right now because the government at all levels has positioned itself to take advantage of the average citizen and as the economy has collapsed over the past 8 years the slack in tax income from workers, businesses and sales has been picked up by police action.

     As a growing number of average citizens take the time to read the laws and understand that many of their local governments are bullying them, the momentum of change is rising.  It is my humble opinion that as we begin to shine light on the truth and make changes that we maintain the moral high ground.  We must control our anger and understand that there are many non-violent and non-abrasive ways of addressing corruption.  Some of these methods may not be as gratifying as cursing out these individuals but they end up being more effective.

     There is always a tipping point on change.  Some of the corrupt individuals will start losing their positions and others will be disbarred or arrested.  Then many of them turn from their evil out of survival instinct.  The polite paper trail and video documentation when possible is the key to ending corruption.  There is no path to success by offending somebody, no matter how corrupt they are.

     So be nice and take advantage of legal opportunities to expose corruption.  That’s the meanest thing you can do!

Here’s the video by Brett Sanders. BEWARE: ADULT LANGUAGE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxP_IamwCk

The US Presidential Election of 2016 is About to Be Stolen

Expect the US Presidential Election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump of 2016 to be stolen by Clinton and her army of thieves. The irony in that statement is that Trump is currently leading in the rigged election polls.  The LA Times, for example, has Trump leading Hillary Clinton by a huge margin as of today (November 6, 2016). There are 2 days left until the big day.

Think what I’m saying is just made up? Check out this video of election experts showing how easy it is to change election results in just minutes at any election location in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ezmpqwVEnM

Corruption in the United States of America has reached epic proportion. High level leaders in our government (FBI, DOJ and others) are using their powers to control individuals, allow illegal activity and pick winners and losers – as in elections. America has become a Banana Republic, a joke to the world. Wikileaks has released tens of thousands of emails showing the sick corruption within our government and here we stand in disbelief.

When most Americans know that someone is guilty of crimes against our country but our highest law enforcement agency won’t prosecute them, then we know we’ve reached a new low. If Hillary is elected, expect her administration to appoint new judges (including Supreme Court Justices) who will be coming for your guns and all your other rights. It starts with the 2nd Amendment because once they take the guns, they can do whatever they want to us with little or no repercussion. Just take a look at Australia! It’s time to wake up and vote. Get involved, talk to your neighbor and get the truth out there!

How to Do a Real Acid Wash on Emails: Not the CNN Fact Check method

I’m so fed up with these CNN fact checkers!  This time it’s the “acid wash” bit where everything I try to look up for the first 10 pages of the web are Donald Trump “fact checks”.  Who cares what was said?  The real thing you are looking for is a fool proof way of dissolving your information where somebody can’t recover it and then use it against you or your family.  You are now at the right place.

Destroying a Hard Drive the Correct Way

First of all, in my book “Disappear in 24 Hours”, I discuss that there is only one good way of destroying a hard drive.  Boil it for a good while and then put it in the microwave until you start to hear lots of popping noises.  Then take a hammer and smash away.  Smash it into the smallest pieces you can get it into.  Next, find some trash cans or dumpsters around town to throw a few pieces at a time away.  I do like the idea of throwing pieces of the boiled, cooked and smashed hard drive into black water but I hate the idea of littering, so don’t do that.

Though I believe my original routine to be quite sufficient, I neglected, in my book to explain that another great strategy before destroying a hard drive is to delete everything and overwrite it.  Secondly, the acid idea is not in my book because it is a book based on time efficiency and I doubt the reader would have time or be in a position to shop around town for the chemicals needed.  Here is the acid destruction solution:

It takes a mixture of Nitric Acid (HNO3) and Hydrochloric acid (HCL) in a glass container.  Heed my warning about the glass container please!  Anything left after a couple hours in that solution and you can take those to the next level of smashing and dumping.

The Real Acid Wash of Emails

As far as the acid wash of emails is concerned that would not be a physical process.  This is a fabled process according to the usual bloggers but I am quite certain after speaking to some sources that there is a process of actually destroying actual emails and anywhere those emails may have been received or sent from can also be dealt with.  This process would require a very skilled individual in an administrative position to go into the system through a “back door” and remove the data.  This may be called “acid washing” in a metaphoric sort of way.  An example of this is Amazon Kindle.  They call it “Kindle” because it is symbolism for a book burning.  In this case no real acid is involved.  Due to the position it would require along with the risk and skill involved we can extrapolate that it is a very expensive process, as Trump stated in the debate.

So is Hillary in the Clear?

There are only 2 problems with the acid wash method: Screen shots, and hackers.  Screen shots are self explanatory.  A screen shot taken and kept out of reach is a hard copy.  Secondly, if a hacker gets into the email and takes information for himself before the acid wash then the information is still out there.  So when it comes to the hacking situation we see, the Clintons still have a problem.

Most of us could never imagine being able to afford an acid wash, so my best advice is to stick with a device that is not traceable and use a pseudonym when communicating.  When it comes time to ditch it, follow my original advice from the book “Disappear in 24 Hours”.  At Privacy Living we also offer hard drive destruction for our members.  For more information on that contact us on the blog.

Financial Collapse of Deutsche Bank of Germany Coming 2016?

If you haven’t been paying attention to the news, now is a good time to pull your head out of the proverbial sand. Here’s a summary of what’s going on if you don’t know and a primer on 2007. In the year 2007, financial markets in the US began to meltdown because banks were loaning money to anyone, including home owners, who had a pulse. But the market can only bear so many bad loans, including the credit default swaps, that were a part of the big Wall Street Casino. Essentially, bankers and “investors” were gambling on things that didn’t even exist. And as a result, real people lost their homes, lost money in the stock market and tens of thousands of Americans lost jobs. This event had ripple effects for years and was considered the 2nd great American depression. And we all collectively lost when Bush and the US Congress decided to give these bankers a whole bunch of tax money to bail them out. Go watch “The Big Short” and it will explain it better than I can. We specialize in privacy, not financial issues.

Fast forward to September 2016. The banks and “investors” didn’t learn any lessons from the 2007/2008 financial meltdown. Why would they? The US Taxpayer bailed them out. And now the word on the street is that the banks that were “too big to fail” are even bigger. And you know what they say, the bigger they are the harder they fall. And when they fall this time, it’s going to hurt us all. no one is safe! But to make things worse this time, Europe is involved. Deutsche Bank of Germany is rumored to be having the same problems that US investment firms were having. It’s time to make some tough decisions if you have any money in the market. Read more here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-26/will-deutsche-banks-collapse-be-worse-lehman-brothers