Signal Chat Security
Encryption protects the channel, not the membership. In a shared Signal room the real risk is who got in and how long their words stick around — and both of those are choices someone has to make on purpose.
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Security
A collection of 36 issues
Signal Messenger Settings
Signal out of the box is good, not hardened. The gap is a short list of settings, starting with the one that stops someone porting your number and walking off with your account.
Multi-Factor Authentication
A leaked password stops being an emergency the moment something else stands behind it. The real decision is whether that second factor lives on the phone in your pocket or on a key next to it.
Social Media Hardening
The Defense Department publishes step-by-step social media lockdown guides and gives them away for free. The screenshots have aged; the logic has not. Pick one network, one ecosystem, and do the work.
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.