How dare I call this a blog — and call myself a “blogger” — when the last post was written about 10 months ago? Lots of nice stuff for everybody to read, eh?
Guilty as charged. If I had a scrap of sense in my body, I’d just let it die a slow death and try to sell it for a couple hundred bucks. Thankfully, while I am pretty good at security (and there will be a simple / “obvious” tip a bit later in this post), I don’t always exhibit what most would call “common sense” when it comes to my blogs and my business efforts.
So I’m resurrecting this blog and we’ll see what happens.
It all came about this morning as I was thinking about the Savvy Blogging Summit (which I will be attending this week). Lots of my blogs are pretty specific and cater to a narrow range of people. Others are there solely to support some other, more important feature of the web site. But I wanted a blog to put on my business cards for the event.
And after a period of reflection, I realized that this blog is the perfect candidate. It has mass appeal (everybody needs security, right?) and has lots of potential for future development. LOTS of future development (nudge-nudge…)!
So, Savvy Bloggers, if you actually looked at my business card (and I know that all of you did — at least ten times!) and came to my site, you now know that you have been at least somewhat deceived. While the blog has been here for a while (since March 2007), I’ve been kind of ignoring it while I work on different projects.
But I’ve come to the realization that:
- I love to write.
- And I love to help people.
So it’s time to get this thing going again. There are a lot of good people in the world that I can help, based on my years of security experience. And the Internet has made it all that much easier to scam and steal, and I think I can help better protect you against those threats.
Oh, and there’s one thing I absolutely HATE — and hope to do something about this on this blog:
- I hate it when people experience loss because they didn’t know about some little security “trick” that could have helped them.
Really. I hate it when people get ripped off or experience some type of loss that could have been easily prevented. It burns me up, and I’ve decided to do something about it.
So Savvy Bloggers, I apologize for sending you to a “dead” blog that is being resuscitated. If nothing else, think of this as the “before” example and feel free to watch from home as I implement what I’m going to learn at the Summit this weekend.
And I’d love to hear your suggestions, etc. — just go to my contact form at Protector Support (it goes to my “good” email) and tell me what’s on your mind, what you would do with this site, etc. I’m looking forward to meeting you all this weekend and am sure that I’ll walk away “pumped up” to make this — as well as my other blogs — the best they can be for “anybody and everybody” who is fortunate enough to stumble across it as the cruise the Internet.
For the rest of you… Here’s your tip (feel free to use it yourself, Savvy Bloggers!):
It doesn’t cost all that much to have a key made. Pay once and you have it, and it only takes a few minutes to have one made. If you don’t have the cash, go to Fiverr, do a couple of jobs, and get the cash.
Having said that, why in the world would you want to leave a house key under the door mat or under a flowerpot? That is probably the first place that a would-be intruder is going to look if they target your house for a break-in. So if you’ll spend a few dollars to have an extra key made for whoever needs it, it’s cheap insurance against the threat that a criminal will find your poorly hidden key.
And “yes”, my wife saw somebody in our neighborhood doing this a few weeks ago. Incredible, isn’t it?
Again, “thanks” for coming back to this blog, and I’ll do my best to once again make this one of the best places you can go to on the Internet to find simple security tips.
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