The call comes at two in the morning. It is your kid, or your mother, crying. There has been an accident, or an arrest, or they are stranded. They need money now and please do not tell anyone. It sounds exactly like…
Someone sent me four options for changing your IP at around a dollar a month. I checked each one before spending anything, and the checking turned out to be the useful part. Somagu : real, and it has been around. A NAT…
I went into this review pull expecting authenticator apps to be a story about paywalled backup. That is what everyone says, and it is wrong. Out of 195 low star reviews, 2 mention price. The mass is somewhere else. Sign…
Did this properly over a few months. It is more achievable than it looks and it buys less than people assume, so it is worth being clear about both. What is straightforward Notes, documents and file sync all have mature…
The question keeps coming up as "which app fully replaces an office suite on Android", and the answers are usually a list of names with no test attached. So I did a week of actual work from a phone with a folding…
There is a specific kind of search that keeps failing. Not a hard technical requirement something completely ordinary, where you would expect four decent options, and instead you get a wall of the same three shapes:…
For years, clicking a username field popped up a little suggestion menu from my password manager and I picked the entry. That menu is now simply not there. Everything else about the extension works. The vault unlocks,…
I run a filtering resolver for the whole house and it works well on ordinary web pages. Ads inside video sites still play, and no amount of adding block lists has changed that. I keep finding threads promising the list…
Tools have started appearing for this from two directions, blurring sensitive data on screen before anyone sees it, and defining safety rules that apply at runtime to text and images. The underlying problem in my…
Public API behind a mobile app and a web front end. I want to ensure only my clients can call it. So far I have tried: a secret key compiled into the app, a custom header the server checks, and checking the user agent.…
Not locked out. I want the list I will wish I had. Context: with One UI 9.0 turning 13 consecutive wrong unlock attempts into a permanent lock, where the documented recovery is a factory reset, a forgotten PIN is now a…
This landed in the last few days and the write ups disagree on the one detail that matters to me. What is being reported about the One UI 9.0 lock screen change: failed unlock attempts now escalate instead of retrying…
A team I work with keeps shared account credentials in a spreadsheet with a password on the file. The file itself lives somewhere reasonably controlled, so an attacker would need to get at the file and then the file…
Currently on a paid Proton plan mainly because I already pay for the mail, so the bundle looked sensible. What I actually use it for is a laptop and a phone, occasional streaming from home while abroad, and keeping a…
Over two years I have set up a hardened browser, always on VPN, email aliases, a self hosted DNS filter and a separate browser profile for shopping. I use exactly one of them today and the rest died from friction,…
Text messages pass through the mobile network in a form the operator can read, and the protocols underneath have known weaknesses that allow messages to be intercepted or redirected under some circumstances. Given that,…
The security promise of an end to end encrypted messenger is that nobody between the two devices can read the conversation. That seems sound. What I cannot resolve is what happens when the device at one end is not…
A well known evasion technique is to detect a virtual or analysis environment and stay dormant, so that researchers see nothing. Some families do this quite thoroughly. The obvious thought is that this could be turned…
I have been on the browser one for about three years, it syncs everywhere I care about, it is free, and it fills things without me thinking. Every thread I read tells me to move to a dedicated app and I cannot tell if…
Public access computers get used by hundreds of unrelated people, many of whom will do careless things, some of whom will do deliberate ones. There is no way to vet who sits down. By any reasonable expectation these…
A widely reported vulnerability affected a well known Java logging library. That library has been ported to several other languages, with near identical names, and those ports are in use in plenty of places. My…
We were told this week that a specific mainstream browser will be blocked on all managed devices, citing vulnerabilities and security risks. The browser in question is widely regarded as a reasonable choice and receives…
Suppose I register a domain with a name nobody would guess, and only a friend and I ever use it. No links to it anywhere, no search engine submission. My assumption was that it would be effectively invisible. But I…
Student, genuinely cannot spend money on this right now, and I need something for a shared flat network where the router is run by a landlord who has admin on it. I mostly want the flatmates and the router owner not to…
I went looking for a VPN recommendation and found two sites with almost the same name, near identical layouts, and different lists. One reads like a community wiki and the other reads like a review site. I do not know…