Insights and Perspectives
Updates and analysis on security technology and implementation.
Flash GrapheneOS Yourself or Buy It Done? An Honest Breakdown.
GrapheneOS is free and easy to flash, so what does a pre-built phone actually cost you for? An honest breakdown of DIY vs done-for-you, and how to choose.
Public Wi-Fi Won’t Sniff Your Password Anymore. Here’s What Actually Bites.
HTTPS killed the classic public-wifi password-sniffing threat. The real dangers now are evil-twin networks, fake login portals, and metadata. Proportionate defenses that work.
Your Apps Are Phoning Home Right Now. Here’s How to Cut the Line.
Permissions control what an app can access, not what it sends. Apps hide dozens of trackers that phone home over the network. How egress control cuts the line.
You Tell Your AI Things You’d Never Tell Google. All of It Is Logged.
A court forced OpenAI to keep deleted ChatGPT chats and hand over 20 million of them. You tell AI your most candid thoughts, all logged on a server. The fix is on-device AI.
When a Government Can Order a Backdoor, Your “Encrypted” Cloud Isn’t Yours
Apple turned off encryption for a whole country rather than backdoor it, and is still fighting a secret UK order. Why ‘encrypted’ in someone else’s cloud is not really yours.
Switching to a De-Googled Phone: The Honest Version
The honest trade-offs of switching to a de-Googled phone: what you gain, what you give up, why most banking apps now work, and the few things like tap-to-pay that don’t.
“Trust Us” Is the Reddest Flag in Security. Here’s How to Actually Vet a Secure Phone.
In security, unverifiable claims are false claims. A checklist for vetting any secure phone: open source, audits, verified boot, and why ‘trust us’ is the red flag.
Deleted Isn’t Gone. Here’s What Actually Erases a Phone.
Deleting a file does not erase it, and you cannot reliably overwrite flash. What actually wipes a modern phone is destroying the encryption key, if the copies are gone too.
Your Photos Are Telling People Exactly Where You Live
Every phone photo can carry GPS coordinates in its EXIF metadata. Here is how geotags leak your address, why AI can geolocate photos with no metadata, and how to shut it down.
The Sensors Your Phone Never Asks Permission to Use
Your phone guards the camera and mic, but the accelerometer, gyroscope, and light sensor are zero-permission, readable silently. They can infer your PIN and fingerprint you.
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