The Ten Privacy Tenets

1) Do not let anyone know where you actually live

and sleep. Preferably, you should actively

mislead people about where you live.

2) Do not let anybody get to know your personal

details. Keep your name out of all government

computers. Do not receive any packages or

sensitive mail in your home.

3) Take care when using the telephone. Use codes

in faxes and letters.

4) Do not have your vehicle registered in your

own name. Consider having a spare set of

wheels with license plates, insurance papers

and so on in a pen name in a foreign country.

5) Do not keep serious assets in either your home

country, your official domicile nor in your

actual country of habitation.

6) Do have a place besides your home (self

storage, garage or similar) where you keep

sensitive documents, an extra set of credit

cards, spare cash and - if possible - spare

identity papers.

7) Do have at least one anonymous, offshore

corporation that holds title to some assets,

especially bank accounts. Offshore

corporations should, in turn, be owned by a

trust.

8. Do take pains to let foreign lawyers and

bankers "get to know you" under an assumed

name. These people may later be useful if you

need professional references for your

alternative identity. Or use a banking

passport.

9) Do have a minimum of two mail drops. One near

the country where you live and one in another

far away country. Test mail drops periodically

for efficiency and honesty.

10) Do stave to persistently compartmentalize

both your business and private affairs so that

one slip-up does not set a "domino effect" in

motion. Do not use a maildrop for your bank

accounts and financial affairs. Have your bank

hold all mail at its office.

Do not have and sensitive information or

purchases forwarded from a maildrop to your home

or business address - have it mailed either to a

hotel in a different city or to a helpful,

understanding friend. Hotels are better, by far.

Yes, it is a tad more time-consuming - but why on

earth risk shooting yourself in the foot.

The only barriers that will protect you against

your fellow man are those you put there yourself.