Category: Security Insights
Everyone Is Adopting TAK. The Barrier Was Never the App. It Was the Server.
TAK is free, powerful, and spreading fast, but the server is why small teams still go without. So we put the whole thing on a phone.
Every Phone in Your Fleet Is a Little Different. That Is Where They Get In.
A fleet of stock phones drifts into fifty different phones, and one is the way in. Build them identical and there is nothing to herd.
The Malware Was Properly Signed. That Is the Whole Problem.
The 2026 supply-chain worms shipped properly signed. A signature proves who held the key, not that the code is safe. So hold your own.
77 Apps. 19 Million Downloads. The Case for Installing Almost Nothing.
The Play Store delivered 600 million malware installs in a year. The fix is not a better store. It is fewer apps.
Your Secure Phone Should Not Look Like a Secure Phone
Border agents searched a record 55,318 devices in 2025. The worst thing your phone can do in a search is look interesting.
In 2026, Google Decides What Installs on Your Phone. That Is Exactly the Problem.
Google is putting itself between you and the software you run. Owning the build and the keys is how you step off that track.
The State of Secure Smartphones in 2025
This is the state of secure smartphones in 2025.
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
IMSI Catchers in 2025: What Works and What’s Snake Oil
IMSI catchers are real, they’re used, and the surveillance they enable is not paranoia. That’s exactly why the topic attracts so much junk. Around a genuine threat has grown a market of detector apps and anti-surveillance gadgets that mostly don’t do what they claim. Here’s how to tell the real mitigations from the snake oil.
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