Insights and Perspectives
Updates and analysis on security technology and implementation.
eSIM vs Physical SIM: The Privacy Trade-offs Nobody Explains
The SIM card is quietly disappearing. New phones increasingly ship with an eSIM, a SIM built into the device that you activate by software instead of a chip you slot in. Carriers love it, manufacturers love it, and the convenience is real. The privacy story is more mixed than the marketing suggests, and the trade-offs
“I Have Nothing to Hide” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Privacy
It sounds reasonable: if you’ve done nothing wrong, why care about privacy? Here’s why “nothing to hide” misunderstands what privacy is actually for.
We Don’t Want to Be Your Infrastructure
Most secure-phone companies put themselves in the middle of your life. We do the opposite: harden the phone, then get out of the way.
How to Use Smartphones in a Simulated Exercise
Standing up TAK for a two-hour exercise is not worth the squeeze. Here is how to run the whole thing on phones instead.
The $500 Mobile Security Lab
The best way to understand mobile security is to see it with your own eyes, and you don’t need a corporate budget to do that. For a few hundred dollars, you can assemble a modest home lab that lets you observe how phones actually behave, what they leak, and how hardening changes things. The point
Carrier Cooperation: What Your Phone Company Actually Shares
Your phone company knows an extraordinary amount about you, and a lot of people assume it keeps that to itself. It doesn’t, exactly. Carriers operate inside a legal framework that obligates them to retain certain data and to hand it over under the right kind of request, and they’re built from the ground up to
Secure-Phone Marketing Claims, Fact-Checked
The secure-phone market runs on bold claims, and most buyers have no way to test them. The marketing is designed that way. But almost all of the claims fall into a handful of recurring categories, and once you know how each one holds up against technical reality, you can evaluate any product’s pitch in minutes.
Buying a Phone Privately, Legally
There’s a legitimate, legal version of buying a phone with less of a data trail, and there’s an illegal version that involves fraud and fake identities. This is about the first one. You can reduce how much unnecessary personal information gets attached to a new device and its service without breaking any laws, and for
The Executive’s Five-Minute Security Routine
Executives are high-value targets with no time, which is a bad combination for security. The elaborate routines that security guides recommend don’t survive a real calendar. So here’s the opposite: a short, repeatable routine that takes about five minutes and covers the things that actually matter. It isn’t everything you could do. It’s the high-value
Building a Secure Comms Setup for a Small Team
Securing your own phone is one thing. Securing how a small team communicates is a different problem, because the weakest member sets the security of the whole group. A team is only as private as its least careful person, and good individual habits don’t automatically add up to a secure team. Here’s how a small
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