Signal Messenger: 2026
Signal is the closest thing to a trustworthy commercial messaging app that exists. End-to-end encryption is on by default, the protocol is open and audited, and the organization behind it collects almost nothing about you.
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Authentication
A collection of 14 issues
GrapheneOS: Post-Install Hardening and Usage Guide
Flashing the OS is the easy part. Without a real password, a Lockdown habit, and some discipline about what you install afterward, you are carrying a stock phone with a different boot logo.
Dormant Accounts: The Attack Surface You Forgot You Created
A forum login from 2013 that shares a password with something you still use is an open door. Nobody watches the accounts they forgot they made, which is exactly where credential stuffing starts.
Why Personal Privacy Matters to Corporations
Nobody finishes annual security training feeling motivated. But people will work to protect themselves — and the habits that do it happen to harden the employer too. An argument for pointing training at the person, not the org chart.
SparkPress - Privacy and Security News
A snapshot of what privacy news looked like in October 2023, back when passkeys were still a novelty and the first White House order on AI had just landed. Short, dated, and left exactly as it was published.
Two-Factor Authentication Devices for 2023
A 2023 snapshot of the hardware key market, when the decision came down to price, durability, and whether you could read the firmware. The specific models have aged; the reasoning for picking one has not.
Introducing the Passphrase Card: Your Personalized Password Security Solution
A wallet card that carries no passwords, only a block of random words. What you memorize is a coordinate; what you carry is useless to whoever picks it up.
Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (Encrypted Cloud Storage)
Switching it on takes a couple of minutes. The part that matters is the 28 characters Apple shows you once: lose them and nobody, Apple included, can open your iCloud data again.
Computer "10" List
Ten things any computer user should be able to do without looking them up. Nothing exotic on the list — which is the point, because the gaps in it are where most compromises start.
6 Easy Cyber Security Steps
The attacks that actually reach ordinary people are not clever. They are a password reused on a site that got breached, and a text message someone else received. Six habits that close the common paths.