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MembersWas Your Plate Searched on Flock? How to Check and Request Records
How to search Flock Safety audit logs, read a hit, and file a public records request for your license plate.
MembersTotal Coverage, Optional Oversight
Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.
MembersThe Streetlight With Half a Terabyte of Surveillance Storage Inside
The city council approved a lighting upgrade. What it got was 4,000 poles with an Intel processor and two cameras apiece, and nobody thought to ask which one they were voting on.
MembersBorder Phone Security: What Works and What Backfires
What actually protects a phone at a border: encryption, BFU state, and preparation, not last-minute wiping.
MembersBitchat: The Right App for a Situation Nobody Wants to Be In
What a government can and cannot switch off, and what that leaves for anyone standing in the dead zone.
MembersCan You Escape the Device Identifiers?
Every platform remembers you in its own language.
MembersGoogle Messages Took Over Your Galaxy. You Have Options.
The encryption settings, the alternatives, and the trade-offs.
MembersMicrosoft Stamped a Secret Number in Your Windows PC. A VPN Can’t Hide It.
The tool that caught a genuine hacker ships identically on the machine of every innocent user.
MembersThe Right Way to Hide Your Email Address
A recent privacy issue with Apple has exposed the dangers and loopholes to be aware of. Here’s how to get email aliases right.
MembersThe End of the Password, and the Traps on the Way Out
Big Tech would love to hold your keys. Here is how to take the security without accepting the leash.
MembersWhatsApp’s New Update Can Shield You or Sell You Out
Used with care it hides what you give away, and used carelessly it swaps one exposure for another.
MembersThe Memory Hole Above Beijing
The tools that erased a Beijing skyscraper crash are already moving through the West’s safety laws under warmer names.