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.
Topic
UTS
A collection of 33 issues
You Cannot Protect Your Privacy Alone
What the Golden State Killer, a genealogy website, and 6.9 million innocent people reveal about the one privacy myth the other three depend on.
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.
Somebody Already Made the List of Who's Watching You
There's a myth that the people watching you are faceless. A volunteer-run project called Surveillance Watch demolishes it with the least glamorous tool imaginable.
Every Privacy Tool They Used Became Evidence
What two Chinese intelligence officers, an "untraceable" Bitcoin payment, and an FBI double agent reveal about why privacy tools fail
You Cannot Out-Discipline Your Own Paperwork
What the Skripal poisoning reveals about digital privacy, and why the same machine that burned three GRU officers is pointed at you.
UTS Control Planes
Five domains you actually control in a UTS environment — and the decisions that govern what you emit.
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.
Call Detail Records (CDRs)
Nobody has to listen to the call. The number dialed, the second it started, and the tower that carried it are enough to reconstruct where you were standing and who you keep coming back to.
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.