July 13, 2026

Why you should never click a link in an email

The email looks like it is from your bank. There is a problem with your account, it says, and you have twenty-four hours to confirm your details or it will be locked. There is a button. Your heart rate ticks up, your thumb moves toward it, and that small jump, from worry to tap, is the entire attack.

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June 30, 2026

The private messenger that never asks for your phone number

You probably send dozens of messages a day without thinking about who, besides the person you are texting, gets to know about it. It is a fair thing not to think about, until you do. And the surprising part is that the riskiest piece is usually not what you wrote. It is everything around it. This post is about what “private messaging” actually means for an ordinary person, and about one app that takes the idea further than most, partly because the team behind it has just had to fight to keep it alive.

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June 23, 2026

You only need to remember two passwords

“I don’t have much — why would anyone come after me?” It is one of the most common things people believe about their safety online. It is also the belief that does the most damage. Consider what it cost one person. Sure they were too ordinary to be worth targeting, they used a single password they could remember — a genuinely strong one — for everything: email, the social accounts, the shopping sites. And, because it was easier, for online banking too. Then one of those sites was breached, the way sites are breached every week. The leaked password was tried automatically against every other account — and it worked. They found out when the bank account was empty and there was nothing left to pay with. The following weeks ran on borrowed money.

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