Category: Legal
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
IMEI and the Law: Where Changing It Is a Crime
We’ve said repeatedly on this blog that changing your IMEI is a bad idea, and most of that advice has focused on the fact that it doesn’t technically work the way the marketing claims. There’s a second reason that deserves its own discussion: in much of the world, deliberately altering an IMEI is a criminal
The Secure-Phone Graveyard: What Anom, EncroChat, and Phantom Secure Teach
The secure-phone industry has a graveyard, and it’s worth visiting. Over the past several years, some of the most popular encrypted-phone networks in the world were shut down, and the stories of how they fell teach a lesson that applies far beyond the criminal underworld they often served. The common thread isn’t bad encryption. It’s
What Forensic Extraction Tools Can and Can’t Do
Forensic extraction tools are the devices that law enforcement, border agents, and others use to pull data off a seized phone. They have a fearsome reputation, some of it earned and some of it marketing. Understanding what they actually can and cannot do, and what determines which, is far more useful than either panicking about
The Emergency-Services Access Every Phone Has
There are access paths built into every phone that you can’t simply switch off, because they exist by law and by design. Two of them are worth understanding clearly, not because they’re sinister, but because pretending they aren’t there leads to bad assumptions about how private a phone can be. They are emergency-services location and
How to Vet a Secure Messenger
Picking a messaging app is one of the most consequential privacy decisions most people make, and the market is full of apps claiming to be secure. Some are. Many use the word loosely, and a few are actively misleading. You don’t need to be a cryptographer to tell them apart. A handful of specific questions,
Metadata: What Your Phone Leaks Even When Your Messages Are Encrypted
Encryption hides what you say. It doesn’t hide that you said it, to whom, when, or from where. Here’s why metadata is often more revealing than content.
What “End-to-End Encrypted” Really Means
It’s the gold standard everyone name-drops. Here’s what end-to-end encryption actually guarantees, and the three places it still leaves you exposed.
How to Back Up Your Phone Without Trusting the Cloud
Most phone backups quietly hand your whole life to a cloud provider. Here’s how to keep a real backup while keeping control of your data.
The Lawyer’s Secure Communication Playbook
For a lawyer, secure communication isn’t a preference, it’s closer to an obligation. The duty of confidentiality and the growing expectation of technological competence mean that how you carry client communications is itself a professional question, not just an IT one. Privilege protects the content of your advice, but privilege is a legal shield, not
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