Won’t Get Fooled Again

17. October 2008 by Revelator.

Try this on for size: Us OPSECers are a bunch of paranoid freaks who run around trying to convince the world that the sky would fall if it wasn’t for our magic potion.
Don’t laugh and don’t get defensive - people do say this about us. Don’t believe me? Let me give you a hint of what we sound like sometimes:

Protect this!
Secure this!
You can’t do that!
You must do this!
Listen to me!
Come to my briefing!
THINK OPSEC! THINK OPSEC! THINK OPSEC!

If you don’t use OPSEC the world will come to an end in a horrible way and the remaining survivors will blame you and then burn you alive and then trade your baseball card collection for the June 1975 issue of OUI Magazine .

If you don’t use OPSEC you will personally lose the war but you’ll be around right up till the end and then you’ll get your’s too - right in your grill - just like Kimbo Slice (except that you will actually be hit and will most likely die).

If you don’t use OPSEC the competition will beat you to the shelves and your company will go bankrupt and you will be out of a job, the heel on your new too-small-for-your-big-feet Manolo’s will break, your husband will leave you for a successful toy manufacturer and then the economy will crash because you are a weak and worthless person.

If you don’t use OPSEC your identity will be stolen and your personal life will come crashing down around you. Your wife will leave you and your kids will hate you with a white-hot passion that will drive them to become lawyers and sue you for abandonment.

If you don’t use OPSEC your house will be broken into while you are on that two-week vacation and while in your house bad guys will put fish and Cheez Whiz in places you won’t be able to find them until it is much too late and on that exact date your in-laws will arrive unexpectedly for a three-week stay.

If you don’t use OPSEC Freddy Krueger will haunt your dreams…”1,2, freddy’s coming for you.
3,4 you better lock your door. 5,6 grab your crucifix. 7,8, stay up late. 9, 10, never sleep again.”

If you don’t use OPSEC bad guys will steal your PIN and take all your money and spend it on loose women, MadDog 20/20 and gambling - and not that good gambling you see on TV but that bad degenerate gambling that has no respect for the viewing audience.

If you don’t attend annual OPSEC training your are destined to be a high security risk for your unit/company. Everyone will hate you and you will hiccup for 4 years straight.

You need to understand that this is exactly how some of us come off. You can’t scare people into using OPSEC. But you may be able to convince them that OPSEC can be a force multiplier, can raise survival rates and can be incorprated into an operations or business plan without hurting the operation itself.
And if you can convince someone that lives and/or money can be saved…well then - you won’t have to try to scare then with threats, voodoo or your magic potion.

Keep the Faith!
Revelator

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