Anyone genuinely serious about security must transcend the basics. Pundits will drone on about “reasonable” measures, but what is reasonable is hopelessly contextual. What do these run-of-the-mill experts, with their generic advice, know of our unique operational agonies? No, you must aim for fortress-grade, headache-inducing, frustration-guaranteed systems.

The more passwords, the more secure the system. It’s simple mathematics. Mandate no fewer than seven passwords and three OTPs, each generated via a different “master password,” just to achieve a login prompt. You need to check your emails in two minutes? Certainly. You just need a twenty-minute head start to authenticate.

And the hardware? It must be in the cloud, naturally. The old masters were clear: “If an attacker has physical access to your machine, it’s not your machine anymore.” So on top of the initial password gauntlet, add a few daily and hourly passwords, retrievable only with a secondary account. True security, after all, isn’t for the faint-hearted.

Two-factor authentication? Quaint. As if that’s a sufficient deterrent for a determined adversary. Here is a systematic, multi-dimensional plan for truly robust authentication:

1. Something you know: A password and a PIN. The baseline.
2. Something you have: A mobile number for an SMS. Perhaps an authenticator app, on a phone secured with face detection and thumbprint.
   
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3. Something more you have: You may ONLY access the secure remote system from the company-issued SecureLaptop™, verified by our proprietary integrity-attestation client.
4. Somewhere you are: You must be within a designated geo-fence, verified by our private satellite grid with 2mm accuracy. Gain half a kilogram, and your shift in gravitational pull might place you outside the perimeter, resulting in an immediate session termination.
5. How you approach: Connection is only possible via our secure VPN from the aforementioned SecureLaptop™. The login screen itself is a privilege, not a right.
6. Someone you are: Retina scans? Fingerprints? Child’s play. We require a full saliva composition analysis. You must lick the secure testing strip and insert it into the SecureLaptop™ via the secure USB-C adapter.
7. Someone else that you are: Concurrently scan your maternal grandfather’s right toenail and your firstborn’s left ear. This is advanced, kinship-based cryptographic pairing.
8. Something only you can do: Perform the classified choreographic sequence, wearing the designated corporate tie, in front of the SecureLaptop’s™ integrated biometric camera.
9. Something you desire: Focus your entire consciousness on your deepest desire, as identified by our certified psycho-experts in a secure 10-step cognitive evaluation. Your unwavering mental focus on this singular concept is the final cryptographic key.
10. Where you are in time: All preceding steps must be flawlessly executed in precisely 29.9999 seconds. This requirement is, of course, a temporary measure until our temporal displacement division resolves the multi-timeline authentication paradox.

And to think, those amateurs at the Mission Impossible division thought hitting a target with an arrow and a box containing the shades to issue the secure missions was secure. How utterly reckless.

Ultimately, the key to security is beautifully simple: When the system is so impenetrable that even authorized personnel cannot get in, how could anyone with malicious intent possibly stand a chance? Job done.

Strive for inaccessibility! Security is simplicity taken to its logical extreme.

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