Shield — Operational security. No bullshit.

https://www.shield.travel/en/atom.xml Shield — Operational security. No bullshit. Reference knowledge base on protecting identity, devices and data. Field-adapted. 2026-05-14T00:00:00.000Z Shield / Privateer https://privateer.expert © Privateer https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/holidays-privacy/ Holidays and privacy: the threat model you forget in a swimsuit 2026-05-14T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

On holiday, you drop every guard at the moment you expose the most: real-time geolocated photos, hotel Wi-Fi, children's devices, empty house announced publicly. The leisure threat model, handled without paranoia.

https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/industrial-espionage-travel/ Industrial espionage while travelling: what your devices reveal 2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z

Business travel is when an organisation is most exposed, and least suspicious. Real attack vectors, documented cases, and proportionate preparation for executives and teams travelling with valuable information.

https://www.shield.travel/en/organization/field-incident-response/ Field incident response: the first 90 minutes 2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

What to do in the first 90 minutes of a security incident, in the field, without enterprise resources.

https://www.shield.travel/en/organization/exposed-executive/ Exposed executive: specific threat model 2026-02-19T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

Threats specific to the media or financially exposed executive, actual attack vectors, and proportionate measures.

https://www.shield.travel/en/organization/corporate-travel-policy/ Corporate travel policy: beyond the 40-page document 2026-01-29T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-10T00:00:00.000Z

Building a travel policy that is actually used, with protection level calibrated by destination.

https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/return-from-mission/ Return from mission: the post-mortem nobody does 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

What you do when you come back from a high-risk trip: device audit, credential rotation, mission report.

https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/pre-departure-prep/ Pre-departure preparation: a checklist by threat level 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-18T00:00:00.000Z

The exhaustive preparation checklist before a business trip, calibrated by destination country and profile.

https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/hotels-security/ Hotels: what can be compromised in 4 hours 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-30T00:00:00.000Z

The real compromise vectors in a hotel: Wi-Fi, safes, locks, staff, a room left alone.

https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/traveling-to-china/ Travelling to China: an honest threat model 2025-10-30T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

What Chinese law imposes, what happens in practice, and the minimum hardware preparation for a business trip.

https://www.shield.travel/en/travel/borders-customs/ Borders and customs: the routine nobody prepares for 2025-10-09T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Your real rights, what customs can actually do, and practical preparation to minimise exposure without breaking the law.

https://www.shield.travel/en/connectivity/esim-travel/ eSIM for travel: the discreet digital passport 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Using a local data eSIM to travel without exposing your home number, comparing the options, managing the residual risks.

https://www.shield.travel/en/connectivity/dns-hardening/ DNS: the link no one hardens 2025-08-28T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Why cleartext DNS queries are an underestimated surveillance vector, and how to enable DoH or DoT in 10 minutes. Quad9, NextDNS, Mullvad, self-hosted: who does what.

https://www.shield.travel/en/connectivity/public-wifi/ Public Wi-Fi: reasonable paranoia 2025-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

The real risk level in 2025, what changed with ubiquitous HTTPS, and the good practices that remain relevant.

https://www.shield.travel/en/connectivity/vpn-reality/ VPN: 95% of the marketing is false 2025-07-17T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

What a VPN really protects, what it doesn't, and how to choose the right one for the right use.

https://www.shield.travel/en/devices/os-hardening/ Hardening your OS: Windows, macOS, Linux 2025-06-26T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

The 10 hardening measures that genuinely change your security level, by OS, with no advanced technical skills required.

https://www.shield.travel/en/devices/yubikey-fido2/ YubiKey and FIDO2 keys: everything you weren't told 2025-06-05T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Choosing, configuring, managing and not locking yourself out with hardware authentication keys.

https://www.shield.travel/en/devices/travel-laptop/ Travel laptop: the machine that can be lost 2025-05-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

Configuring a laptop that can be seized, lost, or stolen without operational consequences. Setup, preparation, behavior at the border.

https://www.shield.travel/en/devices/work-phone/ Work phone: Android, iPhone, or nothing 2025-04-24T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

An honest comparison of the two platforms for professional use in a constrained environment, with the real trade-offs.

https://www.shield.travel/en/devices/disk-encryption/ Disk encryption, really? 2025-04-03T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

BitLocker, FileVault, LUKS: what's enabled by default, what actually protects, and the attacks that get through anyway.

https://www.shield.travel/en/identity/defensive-osint/ Defensive OSINT: what you let leak 2025-03-13T00:00:00.000Z 2025-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Using offensive intelligence tools on yourself to anticipate what an adversary will see in 2 hours.

https://www.shield.travel/en/identity/sim-swap/ SIM swap: 4 hours to become you 2025-02-20T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

How a 4-hour attack can compromise your complete identity, and why SMS as MFA factor is a systemic risk.

https://www.shield.travel/en/identity/mfa-google-authenticator/ MFA: why your Google Authenticator app betrays you 2025-01-30T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-28T00:00:00.000Z

All MFA solutions are not equal. Anatomy of attacks bypassing TOTP, and migration path to FIDO2.

https://www.shield.travel/en/identity/email-is-passport/ Your email address is your digital passport 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-30T00:00:00.000Z

Why the main email is the root of all compromise, and how to harden access without locking yourself out.

https://www.shield.travel/en/reality/data-brokers/ Data brokers: the leak you pay for 2024-12-05T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-14T00:00:00.000Z

Who collects your data, how, why it's structurally hard to stop, and what you can reasonably do.

https://www.shield.travel/en/reality/identity-compartmentation/ Identity compartmentation: operating with multiple yous 2024-11-14T00:00:00.000Z 2025-12-10T00:00:00.000Z

Building watertight identities by use. The four-identity model, tools per compartment, the non-contamination rule, and rotation as maintenance.

https://www.shield.travel/en/reality/right-to-be-forgotten/ The right to be forgotten: why it almost never works 2024-10-24T00:00:00.000Z 2025-11-20T00:00:00.000Z

An honest anatomy of the GDPR right to erasure — what it covers, what it doesn't, and the pragmatic alternatives when deletion is out of reach.

https://www.shield.travel/en/reality/exposure-audit/ The exposure audit: 2 hours to map what's leaking 2024-10-03T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z

Step-by-step method to inventory what is already public about you. Free tools, priority order, decisions to make.

https://www.shield.travel/en/reality/data-already-public/ Your data is already public. What that really changes. 2024-09-12T00:00:00.000Z 2026-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

The privacy-first fiction serves everyone except you. An honest inventory of what has already leaked, and the strategic shift to operating in an assumed-leaked state.