Email aliasing is one of the most underrated privacy techniques that has yet to go mainstream. For the privacy-conscious user, it offers a degree of separation between all your accounts, making it harder for data brokers to correlate your various accounts across different services by not using the same email address to sign up....
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...
A few years ago, minimalism was all the rage. Marie Kondo was on every TV, The Minimalists were in everyone’s podcast feed, and I found myself confused, regretting not having started a blog or something years ago. I’ve always been a bit of a minimalist myself, and it had never occurred to me that other people might not be...
This weekend in the United States, taxes are due. For the more responsible readers – aka “everyone but me” – this was probably already done weeks – if not months – ago. But don’t worry. Taxes will roll around again the same time next year, as inevitable as death itself as the famous philosopher noted, and our...
Identity theft is a common cause of anxiety in modern society, and it’s pretty justifiable. According to a recent survey from US News, almost three quarters of adults have experienced at least one case of identity theft, and 27% have experienced more than one. In 2022 there were more than 1.1 million reports of identity theft,...
Cloud storage has become ubiquitous in modern society. The most widely-used example, I think, is the one that comes prebundled with our p…
There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig…
2023 was a record-breaking year for cybersecurity in a bad way. Ransomware payments hit a record high of $1.1 billion, which is likely to…
