Data: The Oil Fueling the Economy
Nobody pays for crude oil, and nobody pays for crude data either. The value shows up in refining — and the wells being drilled are your devices, your apps, and every transaction you make.
Topic
Cross-Platform
A collection of 45 issues
Account Privacy Dashboards
Apple, Google, and Microsoft each publish a page showing what they hold on you. Three links and half an hour tells you what is in the file, starting with whether Maps is still logging where you go.
What is Doxxing?
Harassment campaigns rarely start with a hack. They start with a search — a name, an old address, an employer, a photo with a street sign in it — assembled by anyone willing to spend an afternoon on it.
Digital Signature Inventory
Before you decide what to hide, you have to know what you emit. Work the who, what, where and when — wallet, car, routines, accounts, biometrics — and the shape of your attribution stops being a guess.
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.
Password Managers
Recycling one password across accounts means a single breach opens all of them. A manager trades that problem for one very good master key — a real trade, and worth understanding before you make it.
Password Cards
A password you carry in your wallet, written down in plain sight, and still useless to whoever picks it up. The card is random; the route you take through it is the part you memorize.
Data: The Aggregation of Our Lives
Type a name you know into FastPeopleSearch and look at what comes back. That reaction is the whole argument. The harder question is where a site like that got any of it in the first place.
Multi-Factor Authentication
A leaked password stops being an emergency the moment something else stands behind it. The real decision is whether that second factor lives on the phone in your pocket or on a key next to it.
Spy Pixels - Email Tracking
Two-thirds of non-spam email carries one. You never click anything to set it off — opening the message is the entire interaction, and the sender learns roughly where you were when you did.