Insights and Perspectives

Powering off drops your phone into the BFU state that even Cellebrite cannot crack, so it protects your data. But it is not invisibility: Find My still works when off.

Hundreds of companies sell your address and phone. California’s DROP now deletes you from all registered brokers in one request. Here is the opt-out method for every state.

Every messenger is encrypted now, so metadata is the real battleground. Signal, SimpleX, Session, and Matrix compared, and why the phone underneath decides it all.

You were not hacked. You were convinced a phone must be a surveillance device tied to an account. That belief is the real exploit, and dark patterns are the proof.

Four points of where-and-when identify 95% of people. Carry an anonymous phone next to your real one and co-location links them instantly. The one link no device can fix.

Salt Typhoon hacked nine carriers and a million Americans’ records. Your SIM logs your location and links every phone it touches. Here is how to get off the leash.

You sourced a phone anonymously, then setup bundles its serial, IMEI, SIM, and account and reports home in ten minutes. How to keep the first boot clean.

A burner phone is only anonymous if you nail four separations, and almost nobody does. Why burners fail on anonymity, security, and staying inconspicuous.