International Travel & Your Digital Security

Mar 24, 2025

Remember when traveling abroad, that your mobile phone and other personal communications transmit and store your personal information. This information is valuable as are the contents of your suitcase. As an international traveler, you need to prioritize your...

Threat Modeling for Harassment, Stalking or Intimate Partner Violence

Jan 16, 2025

First, let’s define threat modeling, so you have some context. Threat modeling is a way to help predict what can happen by looking at what happened in the past. In other words, it’s a process to identify threats, vulnerabilities and safety gaps, and then creating...

Detecting and Removing Stalkerware in 2024

Sep 16, 2024

What is Stalkerware? Stalkerware is monitoring software or spyware, such as apps, software programs, and devices that allow another person to secretly monitor your phone, tablet, computer or device activity. Stalkerware apps and software is often pitched by the...

Reputation: A Guide to Protecting Your Privacy

Jul 22, 2024

Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” album is a rollercoaster of emotions and lessons that can be surprisingly applicable to protecting your privacy. Just as Taylor crafts a meticulous public image and guards her personal life, you too can take steps to safeguard...

Essential Safety Tips for Protestors

May 1, 2024

This is for you if you are: – Activist – Protestor – Journalist – Family Member/Friend of an attendee Threat Model or Risk Profile Understand your potential threats, vulnerabilities and what you can control to help defend against these threats....

Encrypted Messaging and Why You Need It

Oct 31, 2023

Let’s talk about secure encrypted messaging apps, and why you need one. People think they have nothing worth hiding, but everyone has information about themselves they don’t want others to know. Any messages you send via SMS or text messaging can be intercepted much...