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This post discusses personal privacy and security for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their families. The author shares their journey of enhancing safety, which was prompted by a potential breach of their personal life and their wife's celebrity status. They outline a two-phase approach: lockdown and disappearing.

In the lockdown phase, the author secured their digital life by creating an ultra-secure root account, implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) for all accounts, managing SMS and email recovery, and taking various safety measures, including the use of specific tools.

The disappearing phase involves maintaining privacy online by creating different personas for various aspects of life. The author explains how they established these personas, set up prerequisites like virtual credit cards and private mailboxes, and used VOIP services and email forwarding to manage different contact information.

The results of these efforts include increased security through privacy, making it challenging for attackers to target the author. The post also highlights an advanced experiment in purchasing a car anonymously and the importance of being cautious about potential privacy leaks even with careful planning.

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