You killed the lone wolf. You built the team. In Kill the Lone Wolf – How to Build a Personal Security Team, you recruited, vetted, and trained your people. They run encrypted comms. They scrub metadata. They correct each other without shame. Security is their default language now. You are safe from within. But you […]
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Kill the Lone Wolf: How to Build a Personal Security Team
How to Build a Personal Security Team Kill the lone wolf. That solitary operator grinding alone in a hardened bunker is quietly sabotaging your opsec. Isolation breeds mistakes. No one catches your slip, no one audits your setup, and burnout is when protocols get skipped. A single operator has no cross-coverage, no redundancy, no early […]
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Fake Travel Photos – The Adversarial Image Playbook
You’ve hardened your system. You’ve locked down your browser, routed your traffic through tunnels, and stripped metadata from every file that leaves your machine. You’ve done the basics, and then some. But here’s the problem — the scrapers have evolved past the basics too. They’re no longer just reading your EXIF tags and moving on. […]
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The year of guerrilla privacy
The year of Guerrilla Privacy When I first started writing about personal security, I quickly realized that talking about privacy is easy — doing it is a whole different ballgame. That’s why 2026 will be the first year I not only share ideas but actually live them in front of you, two weeks at […]
Compartmentalization for Privacy and Security
Compartmentalization for Privacy and Security In today’s hyper‑connected world, a single breach can cascade into a full‑blown privacy nightmare, and that’s exactly why I’m a big fan of compartmentalization. By deliberately separating different aspects of my digital and physical life—email, social media, banking, work tools, and even personal hobbies — I create “walls” that […]
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Why I Decided to Host a Family‑Only Mastodon Instance
I was recently asked by a friend that was concerned with the level of discourse on Social media and He wanted to know if there was something that could be done. While I can’t solve the problems that we are experiencing on social media as a whole, there is one positive direction that you […]
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The Slippery Slope
Orwellian Nightmare We seem to be caught up in an Orwellian nightmare. Many people are outraged at the latest laws the are being forced upon people in various countries and it is starting to happen here in the United States. I am, of course, talking about “Age Verification” (AV). The way that it is […]
Alternatives to Google Search
Alternatives to Google Search Google is the three-hundred pound gorilla in the room when it comes to searching on the internet, but there are privacy concerns. Searches that you make online have the potential to reveal a lot about you and your private life. This includes, but is not limited to: your habits, your interests, […]
Securing Firefox
Securing Firefox is fairly easy to do with these step by step instructions. Securing Firefox helps you with your privacy and peace of mind. […]