October 30, 2023 Reclaiming the Internet What happened to the internet? It had so much promise. Social media and search results are full of stuff we never wanted to see….
August 28, 2023 Assessing Your Network Security In the third part of my series on securing your home network, we’ll assess your security and privacy vulnerabilities. In prior weeks, we’ve exhaustively…
July 31, 2023 Less is More Last time, I told you how to enumerate all the devices on your home network. Before we go to the trouble of analyzing and…
July 17, 2023 IoT Inventory The Internet of Things (IoT) has added internet connections to lots of home devices. Each and every one of those devices runs software on…
April 10, 2023 Reviewing Mullvad Browser Right after releasing my episode on web fingerprinting, highly-respected VPN provider Mullvad teamed up with Tor to release a new web browser, specifically designed…
February 6, 2023 Combatting Surveillance Capitalism The business of data mining and behavioral advertising has never been stronger or more ubiquitous. And yet, cracks are beginning to appear in the…
January 9, 2023 Privacy Tide is Turning Facebook stock is down 65%, they just paid $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, and they’ve just been fined over $400M by the…
December 5, 2022 Tis the Season for Scams Tis the season for giving… and unfortunately, also for taking. Scammers tend to be extremely active during the holiday season. We’re buying lots of…
October 24, 2022 Your TV is Watching You This is going to sound bonkers, even though you’re used to so many things tracking you… web pages, emails, and apps… but I’m here…
October 10, 2022 Mobile Payment Fraud Cold hard cash is becoming more and more rare these days. People just don’t carry it around much any more. So how do you…
