Practical Sovereignty
Influence Operations
On Cialdini's Principles Applied to Information Warfare, State-Sponsored Disinformation, and the Mechanics of Mass Manipulation
Practical Sovereignty
Practical Sovereignty
Identity Theft Recovery
On the Actual Process When It Happens, What to Do in What Order, and What the Recovery Timeline Realistically Looks Like
Practical Sovereignty
IMSI Catchers and Cell Site Simulators
On How Law Enforcement (and Others) Track Phones, What Stingrays Actually Do, and the Legal Landscape of Mobile Surveillance
Practical Sovereignty
Honeypots and Canaries
On Detecting Intrusion Through Deliberate Deception, the Attacker Who Reveals Themselves by Touching the Bait, and the Inversion of the Surveillance Relationship
Practical Sovereignty
GrapheneOS and the Sovereign Smartphone
On Degoogled Android, What It Takes and What It Provides, and Who a Hardened Mobile OS Is Actually For
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Full Disk Encryption
On What It Protects Against and What It Does Not, FileVault, BitLocker, and VeraCrypt, and the Stolen Laptop Scenario in Full
Practical Sovereignty
Financial Privacy
On the Credit Reporting System as Surveillance Infrastructure, Financial Data Brokers, Cryptocurrency and Privacy Coins, and the Cash Argument
Practical Sovereignty
Faraday Pouches
On When to Actually Use One and When It Is Theater, the Practical Use Cases versus the Paranoia Gradient, and the Device That Cannot Be Found
Practical Sovereignty
Defense in Depth
On Why No Single Measure Is Sufficient, the Philosophy of Layered Security as a Life Practice, and the Failure Mode of the Single Point of Perfection
Practical Sovereignty
Dead Drops
On Physical and Digital Dead Drops, the Intelligence Tradition and Its Contemporary Applications, and the Connection to the Alembic's Physical Artifact Work
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Compartmentalization
On how the spy cell becomes a personal security principle, and why the compromise of one domain need not corrupt them all
Practical Sovereignty
Bluetooth Attack Surface
On BlueBorne, BlueSmack, the Forgotten Radio, and Why to Disable Bluetooth When You Are Not Using It