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.

You Told It Everything

What a free chatbot therapist and a company that paid teenagers twenty dollars for their whole phone reveal about the trade you make every time something is free.

Encrypted DNS on Every Platform

Everyone recommends encrypted DNS and almost nobody shows you where the setting is. Verified paths for six platforms, and an honest account of what you are actually buying.

You Cannot Protect Your Privacy Alone

What the Golden State Killer, a genealogy website, and 6.9 million innocent people reveal about the one privacy myth the other three depend on.

Intervening in the Attribution Chain

Attribution is a process, not a condition. It runs observation, collection, correlation, identity, and a countermeasure that fires at the wrong stage leaves everything downstream intact.

Lockdown Mode: Is It Worth It?

Two companies shipped a feature with the same name and almost nothing in common. One costs you nothing and everyone should know the button. The other breaks real things and is aimed at very few people.

Somebody Already Made the List of Who's Watching You

There's a myth that the people watching you are faceless. A volunteer-run project called Surveillance Watch demolishes it with the least glamorous tool imaginable.

Four Ways to get a Private Phone

Four Ways to Build a Private Phone: A Field Guide to Lockdown Mode, GrapheneOS, Cape, and Glacier. A thorough, vendor-neutral look at four distinct approaches to mobile privacy, what each one actually does, where it shines, and where it falls short.

Every Privacy Tool They Used Became Evidence

What two Chinese intelligence officers, an "untraceable" Bitcoin payment, and an FBI double agent reveal about why privacy tools fail