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Signal vs Telegram 2026: I Tested Both for 3 Months and One Is Secretly Sharing Your Data

Last October, a friend of mine — let’s call him Ravi — sent me a message on Telegram: "Hey, I switched to Telegram because it’s encr...

Privacy Tools 256 views 3 min read

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WhatsApp Privacy Settings You Need to Change Right Now in 2026 — A Complete Security Audit Guide

I Ignored My WhatsApp Privacy Settings for Three Years — Then My Ex Started Quoting My Status Updates Look, I know what you're thinking. ...

How-To Guides 80 views 9 min read

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TeamPCP Hid Credential-Stealing Malware Inside a WAV File on PyPI — Here Is How to Audit Every Python Package You Install Before It Steals Your Cloud Keys

I almost installed it. Hand on heart — I had pip install telnyx==4.87.1 queued up in my terminal last Thursday at 11:47 PM, half-asleep af...

Threat Analysis 49 views 6 min read

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Your Ubuntu Desktop Has a Ticking Root Bomb and You Have Got Exactly 10 Days to Defuse It

Your Ubuntu Desktop Has a Ticking Root Bomb and You Have Got Exactly 10 Days to Defuse It I was halfway through my second espresso — the ...

Privacy Tools 41 views 6 min read

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7 Cybersecurity Myths That Are Putting You at Risk in 2026

Cybersecurity advice hasn't aged well. Most of the "tips" floating around the internet were written in 2015 and copy-pasted into 2026 articl...

How-To Guides 30 views 6 min read

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That Thirty Dollar KVM on Your Desk Just Gave Hackers Physical Access to Every Machine in Your Office — Nine Flaws Exposed Across Four Vendors

I Almost Bought One of These Things Last Week Look, I need to come clean about something. Last Wednesday — around 11:30 PM, because appar...

Threat Analysis 28 views 8 min read

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Senator Wyden Just Warned That the NSA Is Doing Something Stunning Under Section 702 — And Most Americans Have No Idea

I have this awful habit of reading congressional transcripts at 2 AM. My wife, Sandra, calls it my "insomnia fuel." Last Tuesday, while she ...

Privacy Tools 27 views 5 min read

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Free vs Paid Password Managers — I Tested Both for 6 Months

I used a free password manager for two years. Then I switched to a paid one. The difference was not what I expected. Everyone tells you to ...

Privacy Tools 26 views 3 min read

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Your VPN Is Probably Leaking Data Right Now — Here's How I Found Out

I trusted my VPN for three years before I discovered it was leaking my DNS requests to my ISP. Three years of paying $12.99 a month for what...

VPN Reviews 25 views 5 min read

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The First 10 Things I Do on Every New Phone Before I Open a Single App

I got a new phone last month. A Pixel 9 Pro, if you care about that sort of thing. It arrived on a Thursday afternoon and my partner watched...

How-To Guides 23 views 7 min read

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Montana Just Passed the First Right to Compute Act in America — And It Could Reshape How You Think About Digital Privacy

I was three sips into a lukewarm americano at my desk last Thursday — the $4.75 kind from the place on Elm that never gets my order right ...

Privacy Tools 23 views 5 min read

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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on Everything: A Step-by-Step Guide That Takes 20 Minutes

Last month, a friend called me at 11 PM. Someone had gotten into his Gmail, changed the password, and was sending emails to his contacts ask...

How-To Guides 22 views 3 min read

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Negative Light Technology Can Now Hide Data Transfers in Plain Sight — And the Security Implications Are Wild

I have spent the better part of a decade watching encryption methods get cracked, patched, and cracked again in an endless arms race. So whe...

Threat Analysis 22 views 5 min read

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GlassWorm Just Hijacked Developer GitHub Tokens to Poison 300 Python Repos — Here Is Why Your Password Manager Alone Cannot Protect Your Code Credentials

I was sitting at my desk last Thursday night — it was maybe 11:20 PM, the kind of hour where you tell yourself you are just going to check...

Password Managers 22 views 7 min read

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I Audited Every Browser Extension I Had Installed — 14 of Them Had No Business Being There

Last Thursday evening, around 9 PM, I was reading an article about a Chrome extension that got caught selling user browsing data. Pretty sta...

Privacy Tools 21 views 4 min read