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.
Topic
Cross-Platform
A collection of 57 issues
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.
UTS Control Planes
Five domains you actually control in a UTS environment — and the decisions that govern what you emit.
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.
Privacy Personas: Compartmentalizing Your Digital Signature
In a world of constant surveillance, protecting identity means fragmenting it. This post explores how one person can appear as many, using different digital personas, tools, and appearances, to preserve privacy, evade tracking, and maintain autonomy in a UTS-dominated world.
Privacy Meets Security
The digital world has allowed us to connect globally while making geographic separation matter very little. This has changed the world and allowed for new and amazing opportunities.