Category: Celebrities
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
Silent SMS: The Location Pings You Never See
There’s a kind of text message your phone can receive, process, and respond to without ever showing you a thing. No notification, no entry in your messages, no sound. It’s called a silent SMS, and it exists to find out whether a phone is on and, with the network’s help, roughly where it is. It’s
Why ‘Secure Phones’ Cost So Much (and Ours Doesn’t)
Shop for a secure phone and the prices can be startling. Where a normal flagship runs several hundred dollars, boutique secure phones routinely ask one to two thousand and up, sometimes with a monthly subscription stacked on top. It’s fair to wonder what that money is buying. Often the answer is less security than the
Ultrasonic Tracking: The Vector Nobody Mentions
Most tracking you can at least reason about: radios that broadcast, identifiers that get logged. Ultrasonic tracking is stranger, because it uses sound your ears can’t hear to link your devices and follow your behavior across the physical and digital worlds. It’s the kind of thing that sounds like paranoia until you understand the mechanism,
The Bluetooth Mesh That Tracks You Across Town
Leave Bluetooth on, which almost everyone does, and your phone is a steady participant in a quiet, sprawling tracking network it never asked to join. Individually, a Bluetooth signal is short-range and harmless. Stitched together across thousands of listening points, it becomes a way to follow a device through a building, a neighborhood, and increasingly
Bluetooth Off Isn’t Always Off
You swipe down, tap the Bluetooth icon until it goes dark, and assume the radio is off. On some phones, it’s not. That quick-settings toggle doesn’t always do what its appearance promises, and the gap between off and actually off is exactly the kind of small misunderstanding that undermines an otherwise careful approach to privacy.
Phone Security for Public Figures: Privacy When Everyone Is Watching
For a public figure, private life has a market price and a security cost. A detailed look at the threats facing celebrities and public figures, and how to actually protect the phone at the center of it all.
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