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 stive to persistantly 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 any 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.