Computer "10" List
Ten things any computer user should be able to do without looking them up. Nothing exotic on the list — which is the point, because the gaps in it are where most compromises start.
Topic
Device Hardening
A collection of 18 issues
Safety Check and Access Audit (Apple)
Access accumulates quietly: a shared album, a partner's old device, an app you approved once and forgot. Apple built a wizard that lists all of it in one place, and one button that revokes the lot.
Remove Stored Wi-Fi (Apple)
The networks your iPhone remembers are a travel history — hotels, offices, airports, a friend's apartment — and it announces them. Clearing the list looks more alarming than it is.
Prevent Apps from Accessing Your Camera & Microphone on Android
No app needs your microphone as badly as it claimed at install time. The record of what you granted and what you refused is already sitting on the phone — the work is reading it honestly.
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.
Disable Siri on iPhone
Two minutes in Settings. Switching Siri off is the easy part; the recordings Apple is already holding need a separate request before they go anywhere.
Apple "10" List
Ten things an iPhone owner should be able to do without looking them up — including wiping the device after ten wrong passcodes, and finding the location switches that are not on the main screen.
Spark Forge is live!
The first post on the site, kept as the record of where this started. Two sentences of intent, no technical content, and a fair statement of what the rest of the archive is for.