Allen Pace presents the Covert Protocol, a structured methodology that will combine through different episodes the OPSEC Podcast principles with the CIA Triad practices. By using these two frameworks in tandem, this process aims to equip everyday users (like you) with both the strategic mindset and the practical tools needed to increase security, reduce vulnerabilities, and enhance personal privacy in both the digital and physical realms.

Action 1#: Implement a Password Manager

Recommended tools:

1. Bitwarden: a popular, open-source password manager that supports syncing, autofill, passkeys, and

cross-device use.

2. Proton Pass: a privacy-focused password manager with encryption and strong privacy posture.

3. KeePassXC: an offline/local password manager that stores the vault on your device for maximum

control and minimal external dependencies.

Steps to implement:

1. Pick a password manager tool (see Recommended tools below) and install it on your primary

devices (computer, phone, tablet). Make sure it supports MFA for the vault itself for future

hardening.

2. Create a strong master password/passphrase - this should be long, complex, and unique

(don’t reuse it anywhere).

3. Begin adding your online account credentials to the vault. For each new account: generate a long

random password via the manager, then save it in the vault. For existing accounts: replace weak or

reused passwords with new vault-generated ones.

4. If using a cloud-based manager: set up syncing across devices so you have access on laptop, phone,

etc. If using an offline/local manager: make regular encrypted backups of the vault (e.g. to an

external drive or secure location).

5. From now on, use the vault’s auto-fill or copy/paste feature when logging in, rather than

memorizing or reusing passwords elsewhere.

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For the past decade, people have underestimated the most powerful surveillance system ever built, not by intelligence agencies, but by corporations. Every movement you make, every store you walk into, every website you open, every conversation near your phone, it’s all collected, correlated, sold, and fed back into behavioural models more invasive than anything that Langley or the Kremlin could ever have dreamed of.

Your phone doesn’t just listen. It watches how you walk. It measures how you move. Not only that, but it predicts your emotional state, loneliness cycles, purchasing intent, and even what you’ll search next, before you search it.

And you’re paying for the privilege.

In this episode of The OPSEC Podcast, Allen and Ahmed break down how modern surveillance works when everyone (from convenience stores to dating apps to foreign intelligence services) is harvesting your data. Not by hacking you, but by exploiting the sensors you voluntarily carry.

You’ll discover:

• How retail stores use enhanced camera networks to track your movement, biometrics, and purchasing behaviour

• Why your phone’s gyroscope, accelerometer, and Bluetooth signals can identify you even if everything else is turned off

• How dating apps use motion-sensor analytics to determine when you're lonely, then target you.

• Why are executives travelling to China with their personal phones are walking SIGINT targets.

• The truth about burner phones, why 99% of people use them wrong, and how surveillance teams detect them instantly.

• Why Europe is sleepwalking into a surveillance state through digital ID, KYC expansion, and anti-encryption laws.

• The hidden danger of bringing compromised devices back into your home network after international travel

• How modern ads appear seconds after conversations, and why it’s not a coincidence

Privacy isn’t dying, it’s being optimised out of existence.

Your devices broadcast more intel about you than most people will ever realise. And unless you actively shut down those signals, someone is always listening.

Your privacy is your responsibility. Do your due diligence, or accept the consequences.

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For more than a decade, intelligence agencies, data brokers, and criminal syndicates have quietly relied on the same vulnerability: your wireless signals. Your phone, your credit cards, your passport, your key fobs — they all broadcast data constantly, whether you realise it or not. And every signal can be intercepted, cloned, profiled, or used against you.

In this episode of The OPSEC Podcast, we break down a hard truth: modern tracking doesn’t require hacking — just proximity. Bluetooth skimmers, RFID harvesters, rogue NFC readers, silent ping collectors… they’re everywhere, especially during the holiday travel boom.

You’ll learn how Faraday sleeves, RFID-blocking wallets, and shielded travel kits shut down these attacks by cutting off the signals entirely. Not with software. Not with “anti-tracking apps.” But with the same electromagnetic isolation techniques used in classified facilities and intelligence operations since the 1940s.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How Bluetooth hijacking and RFID skimming actually work (and why tourists are the easiest targets)

• Why your phone still broadcasts identifiers even when it’s “off”

• The difference between consumer-grade Faraday products vs. intelligence-grade shielding

• Why doubling-layer protection (sleeve + wallet, sleeve + bag) mirrors professional tradecraft

• The silent rise of contactless credit card theft in crowded holiday shopping zones

• Why a $10 RFID sleeve can stop a $500 attack before it begins

• The truth about Faraday backpacks, travel organisers, and which brands actually hold up

• How to integrate Faraday protection into daily OPSEC without looking like a tactical wannabe

If intelligence agencies rely on signal isolation to protect classified hardware, identities, and operational assets, why shouldn’t you use the same principles to protect your phone, passport, and money?

Your devices broadcast more about you than you think.

Your security is your responsibility.

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