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
Topic
Cross-Platform
A collection of 52 issues
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
You Cannot Out-Discipline Your Own Paperwork
What the Skripal poisoning reveals about digital privacy, and why the same machine that burned three GRU officers is pointed at you.