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…
May 8, 2023 Blocking Google Popups Have you noticed Google getting really pushy lately with offers to “sign in with Google”? You’re not alone. Many websites offer the ability to…
February 27, 2023 Unmasking Shortened Links Web links are great, when you’re on the web. But if you need to read off or write down a web address, or URL,…
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…
August 8, 2022 Security Via Subtraction All software has bugs, so the more software you have installed, the more bugs you have. It’s not just the bugs in any individual…
June 27, 2022 Total Cookie Protection Firefox officially rolled out its Total Cookie Protection feature last week, which is a clever and elegant solution for blocking tracking using third party…
May 30, 2022 Emergency Mode Modern smartphones have a potentially life-saving feature called “SOS” or “Emergency” mode that can give first responders critical medical information and automatically dial your…
April 4, 2022 De-Google Your Life (Part 4) I wrap up my de-Google project this week with two biggies: Google Drive and Google Docs. I decided to reduce my Google data footprint…
March 21, 2022 De-Google Your Life (Part 3) One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2022 is to reduce my Google footprint – to try to de-Google my life as best I…
March 7, 2022 My De-Google Strategy As my de-Google project progresses, I realized that I skipped the most important step: reconnaissance. Before you can de-Google your life, you need to…
