The Complete SimpleX Chat Hardening Guide (2025–2026)
SimpleX is the only messenger with no user IDs at all. Here's how to harden it — profiles, relays, Tor, and self-hosting — for real metadata privacy.
Topic
Security
A collection of 45 issues
Signal Messenger: 2026
Signal is the closest thing to a trustworthy commercial messaging app that exists. End-to-end encryption is on by default, the protocol is open and audited, and the organization behind it collects almost nothing about you.
Building a Self-Controlled VPN Jumpbox in Your Browser
Your laptop should not be the thing touching the internet. Move that job onto a box you own, reach its desktop from a browser tab, and the coffee-shop network never sees the work itself.
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.
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.
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.
Guide to Setting Up Tailscale for Secure RDP Access to a Home Windows Computer While Traveling
With Tailscale, you can securely and seamlessly RDP into your home computer from anywhere in the world. This setup provides private, encrypted remote access without exposing your RDP port to the internet, significantly reducing security risks.
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.