Encrypted DNS on Every Platform
Everyone recommends encrypted DNS and almost nobody shows you where the setting is. Verified paths for six platforms, and an honest account of what you are actually buying.
Topic
Tracking
A collection of 28 issues
They Have Your Data. Here’s How They Track You with It
Someone can say where you were last Tuesday at 8:42 PM and who you were probably with. Not because they broke into your phone, but because your phone was doing exactly what it was built to do.
Mobile Data Collection Pyramid
Three layers, and they are not equally hard to reach. The top one is bought from data brokers. The bottom one needs a warrant. Knowing which layer a given adversary can reach tells you what is actually worth defending.
The Five Vectors of UTS
Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance (UTS) collects and analyzes data across five vectors: Online, Electronic, Visual-Physical, Financial, and Travel. Each vector reveals patterns and vulnerabilities, posing risks to privacy and autonomy. Understanding these vectors is vital to mitigating threats.
Search and You: Navigating UTS, Privacy, and the Quest for Private Searching
Your search history is the most honest thing you produce, full of questions you would never ask a person. Here is what happens to those queries after you press enter, and what it takes to stop.
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.
UTS, Digital Privacy, and Data Science
A short piece, closer to a definition than an argument. If the term UTS keeps turning up here and you want the one-paragraph version of why it matters before reading further, start with this one.
Digital Tracking
Your digital shadow is not one thing following you. It is nine of them, and they hand each other your identity as you move. A reference list of the mechanisms, from the browser to the data broker.
Digital Privacy - It matters
Free services are not free; the price is quoted in data you never see itemized. What ubiquitous technical surveillance actually collects on an ordinary day, and where you still hold leverage over it.
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.