Secret Messages and Secure Communications (Inserted Update)

Important Additions, Updates, and Notes:

Using Cash and Credit Cards:

It is important to mention something here that I should have mentioned at the beginning. Cash is King. Cash is untraceable, and should be used when making purchases of any kind, including those that are for other things like your BOB.

Even when using the internet to make a purchases it is good to use cash to get the means to. For those in British Columbia I strongly recommend the VANCITY VISA gift cards, although any store bought visa or master card gift card will do the same thing such as those bought at 7-11 convenience stores.

NOTE: Money Mart Pre-Paid Master Cards are not safe to protect your identity, or credit! They require that you show government issued ID cards to get them.

Never, never use your real credit card online! Even if you are not concerned with protecting your real name, your credit card is never 100% safe online. Use one of these gift cards instead.

Secret Messages and Secure Communications Part 3

All About Being On line:

Welcome to the world wide web. Within this realm of virtual space you can buy anything, sell services and objects of desire. You can pay your bills, while working for a company half way around the world, without even getting out of bed. The Internet provides you with entertainment, information, education and even help you find the love of your life. And it can ruin your life.

All you need for this modern marvel is a few wires, a power source, some basic equipment, and access.

Secret Messages and Secure Communications (Part 2):

Yet another passport:

Your name itself isn't enough to identify you, if your name happens to be John Smith there are 50,628 other people in the United States alone with that same name. You real identity is a combination of the name you were given at birth by your parents, the place where you were born, your family tree, your citizenship, and where your permanent residence is. You can not change your family tree, the name your parents gave you (given name), or where you were born, and that makes that information more valuable then anything else about you. Never give away your family tree information, or where you were born, it can be used to steal your identity. You can however add too, or change out right everything else, even your name.

Secret Messages and Secure Communications (Part 1):

This post grew on me, so I have broken it up into parts. - Wolfe

No one can stand alone. I know there is a common mind set amongst survivalists that we are a hardy set of individuals, but you can not keep watch twenty four hours a day on your own. Even if all you are relying on are close family members, there are security issues that you should consider.

I have a poll up on my blog here as to which 'how to guide' I should write first, and so far lock picking has reached the top. However, I felt that the importance of encryption, and security culture are somethings not completely understood.

I think part of the reason that Survivalists and Preppers alike fail to realize how important secure communications are is that they some how associate these methods with underground groups that are bent of the destruction of the 'American' way of life, or Western Civilization... The truth is, they are right. It's not so much a conspiracy theory of rebel youth who have turned to communism, as it is counter culture that grows as a result of socialism.

I have a passion for encryption and security culture issues. I've been working on a system to to hide encrypted message, as in hide the fact that it's encrypted to begin with. I call it stegtext after the photo version which is called steghide.

Recently I've been messing around with rotating cyphers, and came up with a really simple way to do it in php....