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
Threat Modeling
A collection of 17 issues
The Five Principles of Digital Privacy
Every day, in a thousand small trades, you and everyone around you exchange data for convenience
The Only Person Hiding Is the Easiest to Find
Eldo Kim did everything right. Tor held, the remailer held, nobody read a word he sent. He was arrested inside a day, because on that network at that hour he was the only one hiding.
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.
Four Ways to get a Private Phone
Four Ways to Build a Private Phone: A Field Guide to Lockdown Mode, GrapheneOS, Cape, and Glacier. A thorough, vendor-neutral look at four distinct approaches to mobile privacy, what each one actually does, where it shines, and where it falls short.
UTS Control Planes
Five domains you actually control in a UTS environment — and the decisions that govern what you emit.
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.
The Privacy Line
Most people cannot say what they consider private until someone makes them write it down. Draw that line on paper first, and every later decision about what to share gets a lot less improvised.
Why Surveil: An Insight
Surveillance is rarely aimed at you personally. It is aimed at a category you happen to fall into, whether shopper, employee, or passerby. The motive is what tells you which sensors are pointed your way.
Data Science for UTS
The same methods used to aggregate you can be turned around and pointed at your own exposure. What that looks like in practice, and why it goes nowhere inside an organization that does not care.