November 3, 2025 Removing Old Accounts Today we’ll wrap up my series of tips for enumerating all your old online accounts and deciding whether to delete them or just dumb…
October 27, 2025 Privacy-Focused AI AI chatbots like ChatGPT have made quiet a splash. Companies are tripping all over themselves in a rush to add “AI” to everything, heedless…
September 22, 2025 Find Old Accounts (Part 2) In our quest to clean up and secure our data, today I will give you several clever and useful techniques for uncovering old, forgotten…
September 8, 2025 Find Old Accounts (Part 1) The next step in reducing our digital footprint is to identify all of our online accounts, including the long forgotten and unused ones. The…
July 28, 2025 Physical Phone Security We take our phones with us everywhere. And they contain, or have cloud access to, pretty much all of our personal information and online…
July 14, 2025 Freezing Your Mobile Account Your cell phone number uniquely identifies you. Many companies rely on this 1-to-1 relationship to authenticate you to their systems. So if someone were…
December 2, 2024 Letters from the Mailbag It’s been too long since I’ve dipped into the listener mailbag, so today I’m going to answer a small selection of your questions on…
April 22, 2024 Just Do It: Freeze Your Credit You’ve heard people like me recommend this for years. It’s time to just do it: freeze your credit report. There are really no downsides…
September 21, 2017 🎧 Rise of the Machines: Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence? Will the robots rise up and take over? Or will Artificial Intelligence usher in a Utopian future? These concepts may have seemed like science…
