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.
Topic
Identity
A collection of 21 issues
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.
UTS vs UDC
A camera counting vehicles and a camera reading the people in them are the same hardware. There is vocabulary for telling those two apart, and it matters considerably more than the equipment does.
Cyber Security VS Digital Privacy
Your employer's security program has a scope, and you are not inside it. The controls protecting the network sweep up your data as a side effect, which leaves an awkward question about who is actually looking out for you.
Two-Factor Authentication Devices for 2023
A 2023 snapshot of the hardware key market, when the decision came down to price, durability, and whether you could read the firmware. The specific models have aged; the reasoning for picking one has not.
Identity Unmasked: The Double-Edged Sword of Biometrics
A password can be changed after a breach. A fingerprint, an iris, a palm vein pattern cannot. That asymmetry is what makes biometrics the most convenient login you will ever use and the most permanent thing you can hand over.
Digital Privacy Laws in the United States: A Comprehensive Overview with Crosswalks
The US never wrote a GDPR. It wrote one law for children, one for banks, one for wiretaps, and one for terrorism — decades apart, each patching the last. A crosswalk of what the statutes cover and what falls between them.
Chrome's Advanced Privacy Features: Introducing the Privacy Sandbox
The third-party cookie is being retired by the company that profits most from it. A short look at what Chrome proposes to put in its place, presented in Google's own framing.
The Interplay of Four Layers of Attribution in the Digital Age
“Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?” is attribution — someone reads an attribute and draws a conclusion. The same process runs on everything you emit, across four layers that cross-check each other.