Move Your Two-Factor Without Locking Yourself Out
Everyone tells you to move off SMS. Nobody tells you the order to do it in, which is how people end up locked out of the account they needed most.
Topic
Device Hardening
A collection of 21 issues
Lockdown Mode: Is It Worth It?
Two companies shipped a feature with the same name and almost nothing in common. One costs you nothing and everyone should know the button. The other breaks real things and is aimed at very few people.
Four Ways to get a Private Phone
Four Ways to Build a Private Phone: A Field Guide to Lockdown Mode, GrapheneOS, Cape, and Glacier. A thorough, vendor-neutral look at four distinct approaches to mobile privacy, what each one actually does, where it shines, and where it falls short.
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.
GrapheneOS Security Updates
GrapheneOS handles memory safety and sandboxing on its own. What it does not decide on its own is how much your radios talk, what resolves your DNS, or how long the device stays awake and unlocked.
Accrescent - Play Store Replacement
Accrescent.app is a privacy and security-centric alternative Android app store that aims to offer a safer distribution model than mainstream platforms like Google Play.
macOS Privacy and Security Hardening Guide
A Mac out of the box is tuned for Apple's convenience, not for your exposure. This is the list of changes that shifts that default, ordered so you can work through it with the machine in front of you.
Travel Router - Gli-Net
How to guide to configure a Gli-Net travel router for secure networking.
Android Security (Samsung)
You cannot harden a phone you have already been living on. This one starts at the recovery menu with a wipe and works forward tap by tap, written against a Samsung S22 running One UI 6.2.2.
Is Your App Safe? A Simple Guide to Assessing Vulnerabilities
A friend forwards a headline about an app getting hacked and you have no idea whether it touches you. Four terms and a short set of questions that turn a scary-sounding score into a decision about your own phone.