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
Explainer
A collection of 49 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
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.
UTS Control Planes
Five domains you actually control in a UTS environment — and the decisions that govern what you emit.
They Have Your Data. Here’s How They Track You with It
Someone can say where you were last Tuesday at 8:42 PM and who you were probably with. Not because they broke into your phone, but because your phone was doing exactly what it was built to do.
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.
Call Detail Records (CDRs)
Nobody has to listen to the call. The number dialed, the second it started, and the tower that carried it are enough to reconstruct where you were standing and who you keep coming back to.
Mobile Data Collection Pyramid
Three layers, and they are not equally hard to reach. The top one is bought from data brokers. The bottom one needs a warrant. Knowing which layer a given adversary can reach tells you what is actually worth defending.
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.