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An N95 Mask Won’t Help You With a Dead Mouse

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Perfume

Can you imagine what it was like back a few hundred years when bathing was a rare event and flush toilets didn’t exist yet? Horses and every other animal did their business in the street and chamber pots might get dumped there too. If somebody would throw a bucket of feces and urine into the street, they’d surely toss out their garbage and the cat that lost a fight with a big rat.

Perfume was important then. Not so much to mask your own stench, but to mask everything else you’d be walking by or in. But that was then. We hide smelly stuff in our trash barrels now, safely encased in ageless plastic. People in noisy trucks whisk it away to some magic place we don’t want to think about.

Do a lot of people still use cologne and perfume today?

In my younger days, I knew a local security consultant. He’d recommend me to the kinds of customers I serviced, and I’d do the same for him when my customers needed penetration testing or forensic work after a hack. We passed quite a bit of work between us over the years, but what I remember about him most is that he used a very strong cologne or aftershave. Using something that strong was unusual even then, so I wondered…