Who is PerroBlanco?
For good or for ill, the internet allows you to be as annonymous as you choose to be. Depending on how keenly you protect your identity online (OPSEC), you can pretty much remain entirely invisible to prying eyes and reinvent yourself as whoever you want. Take me, approaching middle age and deciding I’d like to spread some of my knowledge to help others, but I don’t want the attention that other online platforms may bring. I enjoy my privacy and the freedom it gives me, even though I’ve been in the security installations game for over 20 years and am currently building a decent sized security company, I still fly under the under the radar of others within the industry, and I aim to keep it that way. You don’t need to be fully-fledged member of the tinfoil hat brigade to be interested in online privacy, it can be a bit of a super power these days. So I opted for an online handle that pays homage to my white border collie and the fact that I speak Spanish fairly well, enter PerroBlanco
What are you hiding?
Everything and nothing. I’m under no illusions that I’m going to be accosted in the street because I spew the occasional sarcastic comments about a subject or product, but having your name tied to something online can lead to all sorts of hassle. From the script kiddie in America who’s just having their first crack at SQL injection to the scammer in some far-flung part of the world who will phish endlessly to extract information or bitcoin, I’d like my personal details to be as far removed from either of these people as possible. Nothing personal, just got better things to do with my time than resetting all of my passwords and changing my phone number.
Why should I listen to you?
Maybe you shouldn’t, but I’ve got decades of experience and have been professionally involved in locksmithing, alarms, cctv, access control, loss prevention, fire alarms and have an active interest in cyber security for the home (and for the security installer). I’m offering honest opinions on things that could potentially save you money, keep you and your family more secure, and in some cases, even make your life easier. Sure, I use afiliate links and ads space to make a bit of money from this, but the afiliate links are going to be products that I have actually tried, tested, checked or used either in a professional or personal capacity. As for the ads, they’ll be based on what’s in your cookie jar, so if you’re getting bad adverts, that’s on you, I’m afraid.
What’s your angle on this?
There are so many places offering advice on security, most of them are trying to specifically sell you their products. I have no ties to specific manufacturers or suppliers, so I’m pretty well placed to give a no-nonsense view on them. I’m not in the business of bashing companies on here, I genuinely believe in postivie criticism rather than playing the role of keyboard warrior and giving them no right of reply. I will have a few pops at industry practices – especially when it comes to the increase of private equity firms buying up smaller businesses – and fully intend to use this platform to put the world to right on a few of the terrible schemes and habits that many companies indulge in.
You mentioned afiliate links, what are they?
If I like a product or service, I provide a link to it, you click on it and buy said product or service because I have made such a compelling case for it. That company then pays me a small percentage of that sale as way of saying thanks for being such a legend and passing that well-informed customer our way, It’s how the world works and every bit of money then goes into my fund to build a supervillains lair inside of a volcano. Or a new GPU, whichever seems more viable.
Thanks. PerroBlanco