The New Social Security Numbers

Your email, phone, and payment card became universal identity keys the same way the SSN did, and the databases that verify you were built on data that already leaked

The Company Died and Your DNA Was an Asset

23andMe did not lose fifteen million genomes to a hacker. It listed them on a creditor's schedule. You can rotate a password. You cannot rotate a genome.

The Password Manager You'll Actually Keep

Moving your logins out of the browser without leaving a trail of copies, and setting it up so you don't drift back

Decide What You're Actually Defending

Before you install a single tool, the one exercise that tells you which ones you actually need

Digital Privacy Planner

Privacy advice arrives as a list of a hundred things to do, and a list is exactly the wrong shape for the job

Move Your Two-Factor Without Locking Yourself Out

Everyone tells you to move off SMS. Nobody tells you the order to do it in, which is how people end up locked out of the account they needed most.

Who Can Actually Read Your Cloud Backup

A phone hardened to the point of pain, backing up to a service that holds a compellable key, has moved the target rather than removed it. Who holds the key, ecosystem by ecosystem.

The Five Principles of Digital Privacy

Every day, in a thousand small trades, you and everyone around you exchange data for convenience

The Only Person Hiding Is the Easiest to Find

Eldo Kim did everything right. Tor held, the remailer held, nobody read a word he sent. He was arrested inside a day, because on that network at that hour he was the only one hiding.