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Sep. 30, 2026Bitwarden vs. Proton PassWhenever someone asks me which password manager to use, I give them the same two names: Bitwarden and Proton Pass. Both are good. Either one beats reusing passwords or letting your …
Aug. 16, 2026Your Credit Is Wide OpenMost of the security advice people get is small. Use a better password. Don’t click the link. Turn on two-factor. All fine, all worth doing, and none of it stops the thing …
Jul. 26, 2026Your RAM Is Supposed to Be FullI switched back to a MacBook Air recently (the 15-inch M5, 24GB) and within a day I’d opened a resource monitor out of habit. Memory usage was sitting high with barely …
Jul. 25, 2026Your DNS Is ShowingI’ve worked in IT for about 11 years, and I was pulling networks apart for fun long before anyone paid me to. The thing that still surprises people isn’t some exotic …
Jul. 11, 2026The Dashboards You've Never OpenedI mentioned this in passing in an earlier post : sign into a Google account and it keeps a running log of what you do: searches, YouTube history, location, if you let it, sitting …
Jun. 27, 2026Your Passcode Isn't Doing Most of the WorkAsk someone if their phone is locked down and they’ll usually point to the passcode. Fair enough. A passcode is real security, and you should have one. But it’s …
Jun. 13, 2026Stop Paying for AntivirusAntivirus used to be non-negotiable. You bought a license, renewed it every year, and didn’t think too hard about why. That reflex has outlived its reason. The built-in stuff …
May. 23, 2026Your Email Is the Master KeyAsk most people to rank their accounts by how much they’d protect them, and email lands somewhere in the middle, behind banking, behind whatever social account they actually …
May. 16, 2026Deleting Yourself From Data BrokersMost of the spam you get isn’t random. Your name, address, phone number, and a list of your relatives are sitting on dozens of people-search sites, assembled from public …
May. 9, 2026Your Password Manager Has No Backup PlanMost of the password advice you get stops at “use a password manager.” That’s good advice, as far as it goes. It just doesn’t go nearly far enough. Having …
Apr. 25, 2026Why I Left GrapheneOS for an iPhoneLet me say this up front: GrapheneOS is a top-tier project. It’s the most private, most hardened phone OS you can run, the team behind it is excellent, and I agree with just …
May. 18, 2025Software I Love and UseA running list of what’s actually installed on my machines and my phone. Not a roundup, just my daily drivers. The through-line is the same as the rest of this site: private …
Mar. 2, 2024Decoding VPNsVPNs are everywhere these days: ads, YouTubers, even non-tech-savvy folks asking if they need one. Here’s the honest version: a VPN is a tool, not a magic shield. It helps …
Feb. 24, 2024The Normalization of SpywarePrivacy keeps losing ground, and most of it happens quietly. Data collection has become a default feature of the software we use every day, buried in terms and conditions almost …
Jul. 9, 2022Search Engines with Privacy!What you search reveals a lot about you (health worries, finances, whatever crosses your mind) and most of it gets logged by someone. Search is a data business: your queries get …
Sep. 8, 2018Free Open Source Desktop Capture Tool - OBS Studio (How-To) OBS Studio↗ is free and open source, with no watermarks, no trial periods, and it will never ask you for money. It records your screen and streams to just about any platform, on …
Aug. 25, 2018Free and open-source software that you should be using!
Free and open-source software often beats the paid, pre-installed defaults, not just on price, but on quality and on how much it respects you. The big players win by being …