How important is it for you to protect your information, I think it is just as important as protecting your wealth. There’s been quite a few ‘data leaks’, so they say — which resulted in many people having their private information made public. Such as their medical records, banking information, and more. I brought Bill who’s a security expert onto the show, because most people are unaware of these things.
Bill is a retired US Army counterintelligence agent who served 21 years. When you couple this with experience with a BS in management, computer information systems, and a post graduate intelligence program as well as a diploma in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence Agency College. He’s a well-rounded expert, and when experts talk – I tend to listen.
We’re going to discuss the importance of security to bring simplicity, for you to prepare for an unforeseeable future.
TRANSCRIPT FROM VIDEO:
Lynette Zang:
My guest this week is a Security expert. Bill Blickensderfer. Bill is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent who served 21 years. And when you couple that with experience with a BS in Management and Computer Information Systems and a Postgraduate Intelligence Program, as well as a Diploma in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence Agency College, well, you have a very well rounded expert on Security and frankly, when experts talk, I listen and I’d like to thank you so much for joining us here today. I’m so excited to have you here and I’d like to welcome you to the community.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Well, thank you Lynette. And I really appreciate the time that you’re affording me to help people out.
Lynette Zang:
Well, I appreciate you coming here because we all really need to know what it is that you offer. And usually the first question that I like to ask new guests is why you are doing what you are doing. What motivates you?
Bill Blickensderfer:
I believe what motivates me is, is all of the, the past two decades, I’ve been helping a lot of people that really are not aware of all the different options out there and not everything to deal with. Security has to be expensive. Not all of it is gonna be holistic in nature. And there are lots of different ways to look at security, especially with increasing the knowledge of what’s available. A lot of the times people are thinking the wrong way, such as I need to get an alarm system after their house has been broken into right, where maybe you should think about it beforehand, but then the other is, well, I didn’t even know that existed. So that’s where I try to help people let ’em know that there are no costs, low cost and other solutions available that they might not have thought about.
Lynette Zang:
Excellent. Excellent. And we’ll come to that at the end. And by the way, you guys, you know how to contact him because we have his links and his email address in our blog and also down below, right Edgar? So, this is stuff we really want to know about, but can you tell us what are the generally known threats and maybe even more important, what are the threats that most people don’t know about, but should
Bill Blickensderfer:
That’s a very good question. The thing about threats is it’s they come from everywhere and people don’t realize because what I hear all the time is, is who’s interested in me and everybody is interested in you and there’s lots of other videos that people can watch and news articles and things of that nature where Google, Facebook, and some of the other big companies are actually monetizing and customer data and, and their users. And it’s all about grabbing people’s attention right along with utilizing Data lakes, which is basically giant hoards of information that different institutions collect. And a lot of people think, well, nobody would be interested in me. Well, in actuality, they’re very interested in you. And if you look at some of the breaches, whether it be medical records, personal information, people, doing DNA tests, things of that nature. You see there’s a growing threat that people don’t realize even the DNA tests. There was a recent TV show episode where it showed actually I think it’s out right now and that’s the very last James Bond movie. And so I’ll just throw that up there a little bit, and this No Time to Die, that movie, the whole premise, I don’t wanna spoil the whole movie, but I’ll just say the threat there is someone’s able to weaponize a DNA triggered weapon. So this weapon actually is nano bots and it can actually track and, and transmit to other people much like a virus. And when it sees the DNA, that’s when it triggers and actually becomes a threat to that person. So there are a lot of things in movies these days that actually are borderline true or already true. So it’s interesting to see some of these things come out.
Lynette Zang:
Oh, it really is. And I hadn’t heard about the nanobots, but you know, there are a lot of things that I don’t know. So you’re saying that that’s, you know, science fiction, but you’re actually saying that’s in reality.
Bill Blickensderfer:
I can’t say either or okay. All I can, All I can say is some of these movies in the concepts that are brought up are actually eye opening to the true capability and what other people are thinking about. So if other people are thinking about that enough to even make a movie around it, know it’s been thought of before, by other people as well. So it’s something to consider that even the average citizen, they have a lot more to worry about than what they realize.
Lynette Zang:
Yes. I, I agree with that. And especially, you know, medical and health is such a big industry and they are, they now have drones, the FCA allowed it, the drones to fly over your house above you and read your body what’s going on there. I mean, there there’s, so yes. What can people, what can the individual do to prevent that?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Well, I think the biggest thing people need to know is start protecting their privacy and choosing security options when it’s really not gonna change your daily life that much, like saying just email everybody uses email, right? So if you’re gonna use email choose one that is secure, not one that is not secure same way the text messages, voice calls, because the one thing people need to know is that the choice you make, even though it’s no cost or the same cost as what you normally pay makes a big difference on whether or not your information is collected, like even this transmission itself is it secure? Like so there’s those kind of facets that people don’t really think about.
Lynette Zang:
Well, how, how do you, how do you actually even know? I mean, I would not say I’m great with spreadsheets and I’m pretty good with PowerPoint, but I would not consider myself tech savvy, you know? So how does the average individual know what the choices are and how simple or complicated to execute them they might be?
Bill Blickensderfer:
It’s, it’s really comes down to the average individual, taking the time to do more research before they make a choice
Lynette Zang:
Educated choices.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah. Educated choices. Cause their friend says, Hey, you should get a such and such company email account. And just like, okay, I’ll consider that. But then go and research it. And just remember, as far as security goes, there’s two things about security that you always wanna remember, whatever we can do. In other words, say this country, the law enforcement, the constitution, whatever we can do, it can be used against you and whatever others can do outside our borders can be used against you. So if you don’t protect against the known threats of, of the abilities of our own country’s capabilities, then if you don’t protect against that, then you’re pretty much behind the power curve already.
Lynette Zang:
Yeah. A lot of the problem in cybersecurity is, you know, if there’s a breach, like there was at what was, I think it was Kmart or Circle K or something like that. I mean, there’s breach in all the time. Right. But you don’t, they don’t actually even have to legally report them unless they hit a certain level. Right. Or can you talk more about that?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah. Breaches are, are, are very finicky because sometimes they’ll go through a review process of, of, is there gonna be value added to informing people of the breach and then if so, how to do it in the best way. So the biggest thing about security, just like your mantra, let’s just say water for instance. So let’s take what happened to Flint, Michigan, Flint, Michigan got notified that their water was contaminated right? Well, what they ultimately found out that their water was contaminated for almost two years. Oh wow. Before they were told. So there’s another good example that Security of water supply might be filtering your own water if that’s what you’re planning on for your bug out house, you know, like you have, or other plans of preparation, some of these things you should actually be using now, because you may be notified a year from now that your water was contaminated right now. And if you’re not using it, you’re already again too late buying the alarm system after the break in.
Lynette Zang:
Right. That’s a really good point. And, and I know personally, my water gets filtered when it comes onto the property. The one that down here gets filtered when it comes onto the property. And then, so that means all my food and all my animals get good water. And then again, it’s, it’s filtered again once, once it comes into the house. So I think that’s a super good point because yeah, as, as you said, I mean, they’re gonna look at whether or not it makes financial sense for you to know, because that’s more important than your health, it’s your health and it’s your wealth. And I thought it was really also interesting that you said that security, which I agree with security applies to every area of the mantra. So, you know, you wanna talk a little bit about the food Security
Bill Blickensderfer:
Food Security. There’s a, a few things. First obviously is spoilage. You wanna make sure it’s not spoiled second. You wanna have a backup. So if the food you have stored goes, I hope you have seeds or something of that nature where you can have a garden, like you’ve also presented on your channel. And then third, you can include Community with that because if you have a Community and then each of the members of that Community can separate what food they can focus on gathering, then you share it amongst yourself. Then you’re going to increase, you know, tenfold of what your Community’s ability is for Food. And then there’s the idea of the food being stolen. So if someone just rushes your house and you know, if it, if the electric goes out and the police can’t be called, someone’s gonna go through your house and find it. So do you have everything in visible site where they can find it or do you have some stored way at it, different location or at least hidden? So all these things are to take into account for food. Like I, myself, I have some here on hand, some at another location, some hidden. So that way, no matter what happens, I don’t lose everything.
Lynette Zang:
That’s a really good point. So we’ve talked a little bit about food and a little bit about water. Okay. And let’s talk a little bit about home security because I remember too one of my clients who was a CSI agent told me that if somebody really wants to get into your house, they will figure out a way to get in. So if you lay in layers of security, what that does is buy you time. So can you talk more about, you know, your home security or even your bug out house security?
Bill Blickensderfer:
I take so security in a, in a unique and different way than what most people do. Most people say, get good locks, get a string with cans. When the powers out, have a dog, all these things are good, but I look at security in a different way, right along with computers. And that is expected to be breached and prepare for that event. So for a computer, like my computer gets breached. It doesn’t really matter because alls I do is reboot it and whatever was there is gone. It’s obliterated because it was a virtual computer. It wasn’t the real thing. So with the house and home security, you can look at all those different physical things you can do to give you time to prepare for the breach, but just think about security in the way of, okay. They did breach. Okay. They did overcome me. So what do I want my house to be like, knowing that somebody else is in control. And again, that gets into not having all your assets in one location, have different locations, have some hidden, have some given. So it brings up a another good, interesting thing, just like your and many other people. And that’s a safe. So a safe is a great way to keep things secure, but in a, you have to think of it as if somebody’s gonna breach it. So don’t put all your stuff in a safe, believe it or not at least in your home. So that way, if an intruder forces you to open your safe, they may get a little bit to make it look real, but don’t have your, all your stuff in your safe, maybe have it in a different safe or a different location.
Lynette Zang:
Yeah. That is a really good and very important point. And, and also have it in places that are not obvious at all, like stairwells, you know, there’s lots of, lots of hollow places in your home where it’s just, people just would not think that anything would be there. So that is a really good point.
Bill Blickensderfer:
So you bring up a really good point with these hidden spaces and those are really effective, but you also have to think of security on the physical side of natural threats and then also manmade threats. So let’s say a fire, if your house burns it down and you have it hidden and it’s not in a steel protected, safe is that storage gonna be safe from fire and also ultimately water or fire extinguisher. So there, you’re looking at basically heat proof or fireproof packaging to ensure that wherever you hide it, it’s not gonna succumb to a fire or water or other things of that nature. So that’s why I said security is really integrated across all facets.
Lynette Zang:
Yeah. That’s a real again, I’m so glad you’re you’re on today because people need to understand this, all of this, and I know that they can contact you and, and we have that information, but you, you know, you oh, okay. So we did Food, we dog did water security. Can you talk more about community?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Community can be very important especially because not everybody has great relationships with neighbors. So the, the one thing to do is establish those relationships as early as possible, and then try to decipher what are the needs, what of, of each of those community members. And you can just nonchalantly bring up, you know, like something happened, you know, are you, you know, basically are you prepared and you can get an idea of who’s prepared who isn’t, who has maybe medical needs and who doesn’t. So like, take me if I have solar power and all my neighbors don’t and one person really is a, a life-threatening issue. If they don’t have power for a medical device, then I may want to offer that power for that, that medical device. So that’s where the community can. But the biggest thing is just getting to know your community letting each of the community members know that you can come together in a time of need. And I think that when everything goes dark, people are gonna naturally come together and start sharing.
Lynette Zang:
I think we saw that through what’s been happening out in the world these days with the VEA disease. Yeah. And that, that’s something that actually makes me feel really good because I think that community bonds are you know, they’re trying, I mean, they were kind of broken apart cuz everybody was staying in their homes, but I think that just made the hunger for community that much more.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah, I totally agree.
Lynette Zang:
So you say that today shapes your history and that history is being saved, stored and can be used against you tomorrow, which, you know, most people, when they think about that, they probably think about teenagers making really bad choices on what they’re gonna post on law, but it really is so much more than that. Isn’t it?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yes. So to stick with the theme of, of ITM and, and the, the goal, the physical goal and silver, which I’m completely on board and doing myself. So I wanna take one example, and that is what you’re doing today is being saved and is creating your history of tomorrow. So let’s say one year ago when I was buying gold, I do it in a way where the bank, my bank does not have any records that I bought gold from a specific store or a specific place all as it is, is like H and H hardware. And on my bank records, my checking account, it says H and H hardware with various amounts, like a hundred times in a month, but they don’t know what those purchases were. So again, this is security knowing a capability that’s out there that people just don’t know about, that you can really protect self.
Bill Blickensderfer:
So now even your bank records, don’t have the history of you purchasing gold or silver or anything else or food storage. So that bank is one data lake that I talked about earlier. And then the other data lakes are gonna be things like that. We all know that happens. And that surveillance, whether it be text messages, emails, whatever, as you see in the news some news personalities have had their text messages actually revealed that they were being collected and it was re revealed in public. So if that’s the case, then you need to choose what text message service do you want to use right along with knowing that these different data lakes are separate and an important thing about security too, that a lot of people don’t really understand is some people say, well, the government’s collecting everything well, that’s not really true.
Bill Blickensderfer:
The government does collect things, but so does your bank, so does your phone company, so does your internet service provider? So what is really happening is the connection of these data links. So this connection is made and then some of these connections are not actually used unless there’s a court order, but you have to remember court orders and even constitu can actually change. So the things that you do, do you want it under constitutional of the government to actually say, okay, bank, show me everything you’ve got on bill for the last year. For me, that’s fine because I chose to use some of these security things a year ago and still using ’em today. So I have a long history now of being protected of priv private information. Nobody needs to know what I bought.
Lynette Zang:
So, and that’s the idea. So let me just kind of clarify something. So did you basically open up just a shell a shell account to do your, a business shell account to do your transactions in so that it doesn’t tie to you personally?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Well this is really interesting. Something I talked with one of your folks when I was talking about the the gold and silver purchasing. And that was what I did was, was use a service that gave me the ability to create my own credit cards at will, any credit card I want to use one time or more. I set the limits, I close it when I want. And at all credit cards that I create are tied back to my bank. So as far as the funding source, so the bank sees a funding going to one particular service, but it doesn’t see what I’m buying because only that the, the place that provides that service can actually see where I bought something. So now you’re separating the bank. Doesn’t need to see what I bought, but, and now I can create credit cards at will.
Bill Blickensderfer:
And what they see is whatever I say that I want them to see, and I can even put a credit card purchase through without my real name or address. And it’s like, people don’t know, you can protect your information this way. And it’s a available right now today. And it actually is, it cost $10 a month for a pro version, and they have a free version and they, you also get kickback monies just for using their service. So I am actually making $35 a month for using their service. Cause I get $45 back and I pay their $10 monthly fee. Now I’m netting $35 just to use their service, to protect my information.
Lynette Zang:
And you’re happy to share this with all of the viewers too, right?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Oh, AB absolutely. Nobody needs to know what each individual buys online or buying gold or buying food or buying water filters or anything else. Nobody needs to know that you are actually trying to prepare to take care of your family in the future, because basically they’re gonna know who’s prepared and who isn’t just by through banking records.
Lynette Zang:
Yeah, absolutely. And we also know that a lot of times what’s been happening is, is someone will go into the bank to send a wire and the bank wants to know everything and they can even say, no, we’re not gonna send that because the perception is that your funds, but it’s not really your funds. So is this a way to get around that issue that we’ve been seeing prop up more and more?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah, this is absolutely a great way around that. And then also back to gold this was interesting too, and that’s my, in my family, there’s an individual who wants to start separating some of the assets that they have to the children. And they said, you know, how should we go about this? Cause when you do assets, there’s, you know, tax liabilities, all these things, you know, if you give somebody more than $10,000, you’ve gotta report it. So here, I went back to the stuff I have learned on your channel, Annette, and that is go with gold because it’s out of the system, no counterpart risks. So what I advised my family member to do was to put everything into gold and then just hand the gold over to the person you want to hand it to. There is no record, there’s no bank transaction. All it is is somebody about gold and what happened to the gold it’s nobody’s business, right? So here the family was able to receive the wealth without having to report it for taxes.
Lynette Zang:
That’s really quite perfect. That’s especially if you’re buying it in a, not really a hidden way, but in a, a private way. It’s
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yes.
Lynette Zang:
Yeah.
Bill Blickensderfer:
More so just so you know, I love gold, I, everything you’ve said about gold and silver, it is a great way to not only hold your wealth, but to distribute your wealth to your loved ones. Oh,
Lynette Zang:
Absolutely. Yeah. I, I totally agree with you. I love physical gold and silver. It’s what helps me feel more comfortable moving into the future. But I also like the tools that you’re talking about that can help us be a lot more private because I mean, I’m old enough to remember when privacy mattered, but you know, over the years everybody’s really been taught that privacy doesn’t matter. And I love it. If you don’t have anything to hide, then, you know, you shouldn’t have any privacy, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yes, it is. It all comes down to with survey and everything that we’ve gone through the past couple years of being able to speak freely. And the one thing that I’ve always wanna do with my family is speak freely with my family so that we can have healthy debates within our own family, but in today’s environment, that is almost threatened too, in order to a disagree with something and have a healthy debate that can be looked upon as bad. So I think it’s extremely important that even for family members to have a secure way to communicate amongst family and loved ones that you trust knowing that it’s not going to be held against you in the future, because it is being collected, that’s already been proven in the public.
Lynette Zang:
So there’s a way for you even to set our, let’s talk about smartphone smart, you know, smart devices because aren’t they collecting data.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yes. They’re they’re basically surveillance devices. And if you ever watched any of ed Snowden YouTube videos and other videos what he says is spot on and they are surveillance devices. Just take I’ll just show my phone for instance, here, you can see it, you see this little Dole here, right there, this wire. Yeah. And what that does is activate the microphone, but there’s nothing attached to the wire. So that means the microphone cannot be remotely activated to listen. And I also turn Siri off because if you have Siri on, then it’s always listening, which means, yeah, somebody’s recording it, somebody’s listening. And then the phone case cover, that’s good as far as the as far as like the video, but the other thing is the Jeep PS and location services. So the best thing that, what I do is if I don’t want anybody, nobody needs to know where I’m going for a particular activity.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Then I leave the phone at home and I leave it on just to make sure they see that I’m at home and I’ve gone somewhere for an entire weekend and come back. And alls I do is use a flip phone with no GPS. And I got it on sale online for $4 and 99 cents a flip phone with, with a own phone number, prepaid minutes. And that’s the way I communicated with my family. So my car has no GPS. I didn’t take my surveillance device, my phone. And I just, and I did have a phone for emergencies. So that’s a great way to be able to move around without being tracked.
Lynette Zang:
That is, so can you turn off if you’re, do you have like an old car that doesn’t have GPS or if you have a new car, is there a way to turn that off
Bill Blickensderfer:
New cars the are gonna be requiring it and it because of carbon tax and all that that they’re talking about. So it’s gonna become more and more difficult as far as vehicles and that’s where you can get into ride share. So if you share rides with people that can help a lot, but protect where you’re going, if you need to protect that it just depends on the individual’s personal ease and desires. But the whole, the whole thing with the phone is it is actually recording and doing everything. And they’re not good.
Lynette Zang:
Oh, no, I I’m sure everybody has had this experience where you’re talking to a friend you’re not on the phone. You’re face to face, you’re talking to your friend and you, you say, gee, I’m thinking about this. And then before you know it exactly, then, then all of a sudden you’re bombarded with all of these ads for that. Right. So you know, that they’re listening, it’s creepy really.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Right. And that’s why I have this little wire and it’s called mic lock. And it, it stops happen happening then. And where do you get? I think it’s,
Lynette Zang:
I,
Bill Blickensderfer:
I just get it online. Amazon, whatever’s called Mike lock. It locks your microphone.
Lynette Zang:
Okay. I’m, I’m gonna, I’m gonna get one today, but we have to go to the bank. And is there an easy way to set up or is this what you, because should people contact you to get ahold of the, the tools to change your bank account so that you can do things more anonymously?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yes. I love that. Just so you know, it’s, it’s you’re not changing your bank account and all you’re doing is, is adding another service that you’ve never used before. That gives you the ability to create credit cards at will and have all the purchase non-identified to your bank. It’s just gonna say the same thing over and over like me. I have H and H hardware appear over and over Smiley’s corner store. It appears over and over, and it doesn’t say exactly what the purchase is, but in my, in my email, I can track exactly what that purchase was for, but the bank cannot.
Lynette Zang:
Can anybody else from your emails
Bill Blickensderfer:
Fr it? No. No, because I use an email service that is outside of the us border, which means outside of us constitutional Cape of abilities. So if somebody wants to get to my email, which is encrypted anyways, everything I do, even though you can’t tell it’s encrypted even if they got to it it would just be encrypted and they would have to get international agreements in order to even get those records because I use the service outside the us. So I I’m just, I just make it difficult,
Lynette Zang:
You know, and it’s great that you know how to make it difficult. That’s what we all need to know. Everybody that’s watching. We need to know how do we make that so difficult, you know, coming up with the blockchain. So I want your opinion on, on the blockchain, which is, which really kind of keeps all of your records in one linear place, doesn’t it?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah. Yes. The blockchain and the fed coin that you’ve talked about is coming down the line and going to the new central bank, digital currency, that’s all really bad stuff for privacy, and it’s gonna be a game changer. There’s gonna be no protecting what you buy. And that’s why, what you say to all the people that watch your channel, which is so true and so important is you’ve gotta get your, your gold, your silver and other things that are outside of the system. No, you gotta, yeah, it has to be now. And I’ve even told my family, if you can’t afford it, just do a portion of gold, a portion of silver, something, you gotta have something to start somewhere. I remember when I first, my very first purchase of a one 10 ounce gold coin. It’s not a lot, but every, every action takes that first step. Exactly. And when you take that first step, it becomes comfortable. And now I look back and say, wow, look at where I am now and where I started with my first coin. So I do urge everybody to get, what’s get something outta system, because when it turns over, it’s it’s done for them.
Lynette Zang:
Exactly. You, you have no choice. Do, do you have a sense because of all of your experience, do you have a sense of time? Which I know is the hardest thing. I, I never like to really ask that question, but do you have a sense of time of when the blockchain might become more prevalent?
Bill Blickensderfer:
I would say I don’t have a sense of time, time, but I do have a sense of what indicators to look for. The one thing that a lot of people talk about in different areas of expertise is, you know, these people must be morons to be doing this, or this is so stupid. Why would they do that when they’re not looking at the the other side of the coin, which is, wow, these people are really smart. They do know what they’re doing, even though it seems stupid or moronic to us, but this is all leading to a convergence. And I think it’s the indicators of that convergence between a surveillance state, the fed coin, the CDBC and the currency failing more and more the stock markets being handled in a short way with the, the ease of tapering and being able to, you know, snap that back if it starts hitting the stock market. So I would say the it’s these indicators of all these things converging between economic, military political. And when these things start converging to a single point, that’s where it’s gonna be a flash point. I think that’s just my opinion.
Lynette Zang:
I would agree. And you can see all, I mean, actually everybody should be able to see that this is already out there and coming together, kind of like a Stephen King novel, where everything comes together at one big point, and then you lose alt choice.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Right.
Lynette Zang:
And I know something that I’m necessarily because of what I do. And probably also cuz of my personality, if I’m being honest about it, you know, you do say that you should keep your preparations as quiet as possible.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yes.
Lynette Zang:
But of course I have to share because that’s my job.
Bill Blickensderfer:
So that brings up a, an important point besides your job is you, you choose what to share because of your job. Right. But that doesn’t mean you have to share everything.
Lynette Zang:
That’s
Bill Blickensderfer:
True. But there’s one thing. Yeah. And the one thing you do wanna do is share everything with your loved ones, with your children, with your grandchildren, they need to know if anything happens to you, that what you left behind is for them. And the same for me. So one important aspect right now that I like to leave your viewers too, is a secure way to be able to talk with your family and loved ones, knowing that it’s a private conversation that’s encrypted and, and you can have confidence that, that you’re not, it’s not being collected. And if, even if it was collected, it’s unintelligible. So give you just one resource and that would be a free app, totally free. And it’s called wire w I R E. And that’s a great way to have voice calls, text messages, even video FaceTime, and it’s all secure and encrypted and that’s a, a, a great resource to use.
Bill Blickensderfer:
And here’s a couple reasons why number one is wire is outside of the us border. So that means any records that wanna be collected by this government would have to go to another country and go through all that red tape. Second, everything is encrypted point to point. So even if they did receive the records, it’s all gonna be encrypted and unintelligible. Then thirdly is they use open source software. So a difference between open source and closed source is open source means everybody’s free to view the software coding that base code to ensure there’s no back doors or, or anything else. The the old secure communication, even ed snow was saying was signal signal was good, except they recently announced that they are gonna be transferring over to closed code source. Yeah. So if it’s closed, why are they closing it? And why can’t we see the code source anymore? Well, maybe because they’re making so and backroom deals with some people that, that don’t really need to know what we’re talking about. So that’s why I say now we need to switch from maybe signal over to wire because it’s open source coding, it’s outside the us, it’s all completely encrypted point to point. And now you can freely talk with your loved ones and actually voice your concerns about things freely without worrying about is anybody listening,
Lynette Zang:
Right? Because these days, I mean, it, it, it’s incredible. We do not have freedom of speech anymore. I mean, that’s, that is definitely gone.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Do
Lynette Zang:
You, you know, I talk about China a lot. Do you think that China, with the level of absolute control that they, well, I don’t know if they have absolute control because they do have the lay down generations. That’s a problem. But do you think that they’re showing the world how to control their
Bill Blickensderfer:
I’m I think that they’re, they could also be looked as a tested, not only for the world economic forum, the IMF. Right. But the things that they’re doing is almost experimentation. Right. So I don’t, I don’t think they’re trying to show the world, but they are, well, I guess in a way they would be saying, look at what we did and how we did it and the success and the failures we had, but China I’m I go back to George Gaman when it comes to China and the relationship on the international side of how everything is so integrated and connected between countries. Oh yeah,
Lynette Zang:
Absolutely.
Bill Blickensderfer:
And China’s not in a great situation themselves, but the same time they can have an impact globally on economics, finances, things of that nature. And some of the things they’re doing are being looked at to show successes and failures, like their digital currency that they gave. And, and they’re doing the test bed now, so they are gonna learn from that. But I’m not sure if they’re gonna try to lead way, but they’re gonna show that they can do it.
Lynette Zang:
Right. I, I think that’s a much better point than, than kind of leading the way, but they’re definitely, if we have absolutely no privacy,
Lynette Zang:
I mean, how easy it is it to control a population when you, you know, everything about them and you make, you know, fear is a huge tool. That’s used to control a population and to get a population, to give up their freedoms and their liberties and everything. Do you, how do you, how can you protect against that? I mean, once it gets that level, because you know, I’m old, I’m not gonna be, I’m not, I don’t really feel old guys. Don’t worry. I’m not going anywhere, but I’m still 67. So, you know, my time is limited. My grandchildren’s time is not as limited as mine. And so much of what I do is for them. Do you see any kind of work around or a way to protect their, I mean, the gold is, and the silver is definitely protecting their future. Yes. But yes. Do you see any way that we can protect their privacy, especially when a lot of kids just give it away?
Bill Blickensderfer:
Right. Well, I think the only way to really protect our, maybe a legacy of privacy is to first get our, our young people to realize that there is a real threat on their horizon. No, it’s not tomorrow or next month. It’s a few years down the road, but if they don’t take it seriously, then they’re not gonna be researching and looking for things to be private or secure, just like many people choose any email service. They’re not looking for. What is a good secure email service that I can hold for the rest of my life. That’s not what they research. So if we can just teach our children the importance of privacy, and then also let them know that there’re gonna be some things they’re gonna be persuaded to do. And some things that they’re gonna be forced to do. And that’s where I think the individual family upbringing, the children is gonna be so vital, so important.
Bill Blickensderfer:
So for, for my family we look at this being a spiritual battle as well. So we hold that in very high regard. And then sometimes you going to have to rely on something greater than yourselves and you have to have that, that belief. And then you also have to know that you’re gonna have to deal with whatever that might be. So I think it’s the upbringing in teaching them that these things really are something serious because so many people put everything out on the internet. Just like, for example, FaceTime, you’ve throw a picture up there. I’ve already shown my wife and my family. I take that picture immediately. I’ve thrown into a free app. I see exactly the exact GPS location. You took that picture five minutes ago. I see the direction you reporting your camera, what your camera settings were. And now I know you’re not at home. It’s you need to worry about these things. So when you go on vacation, don’t post those vacation photos until you get home. Right? So it’s those kind of simple things that don’t cost any money. The it’s just using your brain to say, okay, I can be a little more private and secure and I’ll use an application like wire in order to communicate with my family while I’m on vacation to send that picture.
Lynette Zang:
And I think isn’t there a way to turn on pictures, cuz I think Edgar has used it to turn off that locator where they can do that too. I mean, I still think you be safe.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah, the, the metadata, but also you have to remember the picture itself can also reveal. You’re not somewhere you’re not at home. Right? So even without the GPS, you can just look at a picture and say, wow, she took that in Florida. And I know she lives in Arizona, so now’s a good a time to hit the house.
Lynette Zang:
Right. That’s a, that’s a really good point. I know here, I have a lot of people here all the time. So even if I’m not here, frankly, there’s lots of people here all the time, which really creates safety in numbers, which is another thing about community, right?
Bill Blickensderfer:
It is. But another thing that I’ve been involved with in my career is like insider threats, right? So you do have, you do have to worry about that because these are trusted people, people within your sphere. And this is dealing with the fact that not everybody’s circumstances stay the same or always get better. Sometimes people’s individual personal circumstances get really bad. And when they get really bad, they tend to do things that they normally would not do let alone, everybody would never expect that person to do that. Right. So that’s part of an insider threat that some people have a really hard time. And so you always have to be aware of that too, when you have a lot of people that doesn’t mean you’re safe.
Lynette Zang:
That’s that is a really good point because the threat could come from within even.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah. And, and the motive of their heart could be pure. It could be because their daughter needs medicine and they have no money because of all the, is medical bill, all these things that happen and they’re doing it just to survive. They don’t have any ill will at heart right now. There are those that do. But even the people that are desperate, there’s no ill will in their heart. They have a need and they’re trying to get that need satisfied. So sometimes they resort to doing things they normally would not.
Lynette Zang:
Yeah, that’s actually why I plan it out. The front of my property is so because when people are hungry and hopeless, they make choices, they would not otherwise make. So my hope, I mean, I can’t guarantee this, but my hope is that if they know they can come and feed their family every day from the produce that I’m growing on this pro property, that’s easy for them just to pick without even coming into the property, that they may not make the choices that I would hopefully that they, I wouldn’t want them to make, you know, because they would know, okay, I can go there every day and get food for my family. I think that’s yeah. Such an important point. And we we’ve covered a lot of go ahead.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Oh, I was just wanna say, but because I’ve also talked to you or, or listened to all of your shows for a long time. And the thing about the food is it would be nice along with the food is to provide maybe some seeds heirloom, because if you give people the opportunity, just say, take ’em if you actually use ’em, but give them the ability to start their own garden, start their own thing. Then it’s, you’re helping them to help themselves. So its great to give the meal for today, but help them get their meal on their own for tomorrow. So it’s, it’s just another added level I was thinking that came to mind.
Lynette Zang:
Yes. And, and that is a really good point. And you know, just kind of staying in that vein too, you know, because we want, because the grocery store, the industry wants you to think that they have all of the food. There are a lot of food, there are a lot of foods that are out there like persua that people have been taught to think of as weeds when actually they’re super nutritious. So there’s food foraging, which we will hopefully have an expert on, on another segment here to help people know how to gather food, even if you’re in the middle of the city and you don’t have food rather than passing it up, you know, dandelions are another example, but there’s, there’s a lot of examples of them. So I think that’s,
Bill Blickensderfer:
That would be an episode that I would record. I would love to have an expert in that to show what we can do for food. So if you do, I would, I would love to, to record that episode. Cause that is
Lynette Zang:
So absolutely. And I think a lot of people are recording this episode and really wanting to have some of that information on where you can get that inexpensive or free those tools to pull lock and to protect our privacy. So we we’ve covered a lot of ground and I wanna respect your time, but is there anything else that this would be a good time for you to tell people where to get ahold of you or anything else that you really wanna leave a message for people to know?
Bill Blickensderfer:
I, I would, I just want everybody to know that there are a lot of options out there that are available that you’re just not aware of. So maybe include privacy and security more on the forefront of your mind when you’re researching or thinking about trying something new, doing a new app. I wanna be able to communicate with somebody you do that securely. And just so you know, there are things out there that are free and very low costs where I protect my email, protect my text messages, voice, and I’m happy to help and point people to those resources so that they can take advantage of them themselves. I don’t make any money on this. I just do this to help people. So feel free to use my email address. I just created one because I can create email addresses just like virtual credit cards at will. And so I created one called real security@opcdotthirtythreemail.com. So just shoot me an email, ask me whatever you want to ask me. And I’ll be glad to reply and, and point you to the direction that the, whatever, whatever question you have.
Lynette Zang:
And I’d like to, I’d like to say, I would appreciate it if you would come back again and we can, I mean, there’s so much to talk about security is critical on, on,
Bill Blickensderfer:
And I would love to come back Lynette.
Lynette Zang:
Thank you so much, Bill.
Bill Blickensderfer:
Yeah. Thank you.
Lynette Zang:
I really appreciate it. And to everybody out there, I know you got a lot out of our conversation today, but this is just the start of the conversation and it’s wonderful that bill is so open to helping anybody get more secure because security is a key piece of the mantra on so many different levels. So thank you for tuning in today and until next time please be safe out there. Bye-Bye.
