Wormhole Secure File Transfer Secure file transfer. A secure way to send large files to various people.
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.
Faraday Bags A bag that genuinely works turns your phone into a brick until you take it out. That is the whole feature, and it is also the whole complaint. Which bags and key fob boxes earn their price, and when the trade is worth making.
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.
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.
Android "10" List Ten things to change on a stock Android phone before you carry it anywhere. None of them take long, and the defaults were chosen for someone else's benefit — starting with everything under Location.
Introducing the Passphrase Card: Your Personalized Password Security Solution A wallet card that carries no passwords, only a block of random words. What you memorize is a coordinate; what you carry is useless to whoever picks it up.
Travel Routers Hotel Wi-Fi is a network you share with a few hundred strangers and, occasionally, one fake access point. A travel router turns that from a problem with every device you own into a problem with one.
Android Lockdown Mode Two seconds on the power button drops the phone to PIN-only: no face, no fingerprint, no notification text on the lock screen. Worth finding the button before the moment you need it.