The Second Key Problem
A hardware security key is the strongest lock most people will ever own, and a single one is also the easiest way to lock yourself out. Here is how to run two, enroll both everywhere, and survive losing one.
Topic
Cross-Platform
A collection of 57 issues
Everything You Share Has a Return Address
Stripping the hidden data from a photo is worth doing, and it is only half the job. The picture itself is evidence, and AI can now read it in seconds.
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
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.