Emergency‑Response Plan for Personal Hardware

Emergency Response plan - Personal - Hardware. Step by step considerations and code to help you plan.

Emergency‑Response Plan for Personal Hardware Introduction When a determined adversary stands at your front door, ready to snatch your computer or launch a sophisticated cyber‑attack, the outcome hinges on whether you have a pre‑written emergency‑response plan. A well‑crafted “kill‑switch” that instantly isolates the device, rotates all cryptographic material, and dumps fresh secrets to an encrypted […]

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Why I’m Saying “No” to Mandatory Government‑ID Checks Online

Banner for the article "Why I’m Saying “No” to Mandatory Government‑ID Checks Online" showing a cartoon of a man demanding your "papers"

  Why I’m Saying “No” to Mandatory Government‑ID Checks Online I’ve started noticing a worrying trend: everywhere I go online — whether I’m signing up for a new bank account, joining a cloud‑storage service, or just trying to comment on a social‑media post — I’m asked to scan or photograph my government‑issued ID. At first, […]

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Privacy and Security when Blind

Blindness, Assistive Technology, and Data Privacy

Privacy and Security when Blind For anyone who relies on technology to see the world, privacy isn’t a luxury—it’s a lifeline. Blind users depend on screen‑readers, OCR apps, and voice assistants to turn visual information into audible or tactile form. Each of those tools creates a hidden data trail that can be captured, stored, or […]

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Using MITRE D3FEND to strengthen you home network

Using MITRE D3FEND to Secure & Privatize a Home Network

  Using MITRE D3FEND to strengthen you home network D3FEND is a knowledge base of cybersecurity countermeasure techniques. In the simplest sense, it is a catalog of defensive cybersecurity techniques and their relationships to offensive/adversary techniques. It is designed for “Blue Team” Cybersecurity defenders to have a methodology to make their networks more secure. I […]

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Home surveillance systems debate

Home surveillance systems -privacy versus security

  Home surveillance systems debate An overview of the debate Home surveillance systems are everywhere now.  As of October 2022, nearly half of American households with broadband internet had a home security system, networked camera, video doorbell, or combination of them. That is a lot of cameras! The data is not stored in your home, […]

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