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(An email that is going around.)

I’ve been mulling this over, and I’ve decided not to talk even obliquely any more about PMs on the internet. I’ve concluded that EVERYTHING is ultimately “searchable,” and talking about PMs on the internet may turn out to be like painting a sign on the house, “GLD AND SLVER INSIDE! ROB ME!” It doesn’t take a world-class hacker to find where you live anymore. Anybody can do it. See where you live in two clicks on “whitepages.com.”

From computer chat to home address is as easy as 1-2-3. Now it turns out that every single internet user has a unique “computer DNA” based on his surfing habits. The feds can look at a sample subject’s week of internet travels (not knowing who they are or what computer was used), and determine the subject’s ID based solely on comparing those visits to millions and millions of previous internet histories sampled from the ether and stored. I didn’t say that well but you know what I mean. There is zero privacy or security on the internet, including email.

It’s going to be rough enough when the USA “goes Argentina” without guarding against “internet miners” who have been searching for “loose lip tips” about who might have this or that at home. (Guns, PMs, cash, whatever.) Not even Rambo can guard a house or even a ranch 24/7 by 360*. Look at Mexico etc to see how even wealthy VIPs with security are kidnapped and home/ranch invaded all the time. A Mexican Senator was just kidnapped, for example. And every comment ever made on any forum or probably even on email is going to turn out to be “searchable” at some point in the future.

I’m going to throttle way back on the PM discussion, and make only very general comments. (Even to not spelling gld or sliver correctly on email, to make internet mining a little harder.) I really regret dumb comments I made like, “I bought my gld at 500 dollars per oz.” Many folks would kill us for just ONE ounce of that stuff. Even if they just thought it was 50-50 that we had even one damn coin.

Just a word to the wise...

PS: the SOP for finding hidden valuables in Mexico, Argentina etc is to torture your wife or children in front of you while you’re wired to a chair. Even if they’re not sure you have hidden valuables, home invaders run a bluff and do this anyway, just in case you do. Couple that with internet mining for rich targets, and it’s an ugly picture and sure to get much uglier.