Category: Technology

Any articles or videos that have to deal with Technology and it’s use in personal security issues.

Rob Braxman Tech, Technology

Google Watches ALL Your Devices! How to Stop It.

Google Watches ALL Your Devices! How to Stop It.

You may think you’re protecting a computer with a VPN, Location turned off and various privacy strategies, but without awareness of all your devices, Google and other Big tech could be spying on all your devices at once, validating information among them like IP addresses and locations.

Google is also running perpetual little programs that do telemetry for Google even while devices are not in use. Information mismatches between devices (because of VPN use for example) can be auto-corrected based on matching devices with historical records that cannot be erased.

There are many many tricks and we are not aware of them, you will think you have privacy but in reality you won’t. You need to understand what’s involved and your knowledge needs to be brought up a notch.

Rob Braxman Tech, Technology

Apple M1 Hype vs Privacy – Which Wins?

Apple M1 Hype vs Privacy - Which Wins

I was faced with the decision of buying an Apple Macbook with an M1 chip but had to balance it against the privacy risks of Apple products. In order to properly weigh these risks, each one of us must truly understand the full extent of the Apple privacy risk, which in some cases surpasses Google.

Find out exactly what disgusting things Apple does and why it’s hard to justify supporting them and their fake mantra that iPhone is Privacy.

Phones, Privacy, Rob Braxman Tech, Technology

A New Phone Spy Tool? The IMU

A New Phone Spy Tool? The IMU

Here comes a new tracking device once again misused for evil purposes. The Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) was initially developed for phones to allow for immersive games where you tilt and twist and shake the phone as game input. Then it moved it to being used for fitness by tracking the amount of physical activity you do and count your steps. But no sensor goes unobserved by the evil ones who will take advantage of these to track your every move.

Find out what the IMU sensor can do and how it can affect you. Find out how this can be evaded or if it can be evaded at all.

Privacy, Rob Braxman Tech, Technology

Defending Your Privacy with Disinformation – Top 3 Tips

Defending Your Privacy with Disinformation - Top 3 Tips

Defensive disinformation is a great tool against the data mining activities of governments and the big Internet companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple. Learn about this powerful capability that can be used by the little guy to make the data collected by the big entities become useless.

This is like asymmetric warfare. Simple tools with a big effect.

Learn about the 3 things you need to do to implement disinformation that will trip up the AI.