November 17, 2025 Erasing Your Online Data Data brokers are amassing tons of our personal information, often from public sources. You can try to find all of these brokers and request…
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 20, 2025 Securing Old Accounts Now that we’ve tracked down all our old online accounts, it’s time to make them more secure and review the data they contain. We…
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…
May 5, 2025 Disable Your MAID As we learned last week from Zach Edwards, our smartphones have a globally unique mobile ad ID, or MAID, that is automatically associated with…
March 24, 2025 It’s Tax (Scam) Time Again Tax time is once again upon us here in the USA, which means that the tax scammers are coming out of the woodwork. Many…
January 13, 2025 New Year’s Resolutions 2025! The start of a new year is always a good time to add some big juicy goals to your to-do list – call them…
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…
July 29, 2024 CrowdStrike Lessons Learned Last week, we all learned about a company called CrowdStrike that apparently has the capability to single-handedly bring multiple airlines, hospitals and other large…
July 8, 2024 Promising Privacy Tech We’re generating a ridiculous amount of data every day. Much of it is highly personal and that’s dangerous. But there are actually several Privacy…
