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The Silent Threat No One Is Prepared For: How a state actor Could Disable Millions of Phones and Why Off-Grid Mesh Networks Are Becoming Essential

The Silent Threat No One Is Prepared For: How a state actor Could Disable Millions of Phones and Why Off-Grid Mesh Networks Are Becoming Essential

Most people have experienced this moment. You attend a concert or a massive event and suddenly your phone crawls to a halt. No calls. No texts. Data unusable. That short freeze happens because too many devices are hammering the same towers at once. Now imagine that same effect, not because

The Silent Rollout of Facial Recognition for Kids, and Why Decentralized ID Is Now Critical

The Silent Rollout of Facial Recognition for Kids, and Why Decentralized ID Is Now Critical

Facial recognition used to be something reserved for airports, high security government buildings, and corporate surveillance networks. Today it is being pushed quietly into the apps and games children use every day. Under the banner of “child safety,” platforms like Discord, Roblox, Instagram, TikTok, and others are testing or deploying

The Greatest Threats Facing the United States Right Now

The Greatest Threats Facing the United States Right Now

Most people picture threats as something foreign, distant, or military. In reality, the biggest risks to the United States today are already inside its borders. They are structural, technological, economic, and social. They do not hit all at once, but they compound, and they quietly weaken the foundations of the

The US Government Collected and Stored Chicago Police Data for Months, Breaking Its Own Rules

The US Government Collected and Stored Chicago Police Data for Months, Breaking Its Own Rules

For years, Americans have been told that federal intelligence agencies focus on foreign threats, not citizens. But a recent case out of Chicago shows how easily that line can blur, and how quietly data about everyday people can end up inside federal systems that were never supposed to contain it.

Flowsint: The Open Source Graph Tool That Makes OSINT Recon Easy

Flowsint: The Open Source Graph Tool That Makes OSINT Recon Easy

Open source intelligence is becoming a powerful skill for security researchers, investigators, journalists, and everyday analysts who want to understand how digital assets connect. The challenge has always been gathering information from many different sources, then trying to make sense of the relationships between domains, IPs, emails, or even crypto

Your Car Might Be Spying on You — If You Have OnStar

Your Car Might Be Spying on You — If You Have OnStar

Connected vehicles are no longer just cars with Bluetooth and navigation. For many automotive brands, especially those offering built-in telematics services, your automobile is also a rolling data collection platform. One of the most prominent systems is OnStar, the telematics and connectivity service offered by General Motors Company (GM). Many

Are Air Gapped Devices the Future of Personal Security in an AI Driven World?

Are Air Gapped Devices the Future of Personal Security in an AI Driven World?

What Air Gapped Really Means An air gapped device is a computer or hardware system that is completely isolated from the public internet. It has no WiFi, no Bluetooth, no ethernet connection, and no network access. Nothing comes in and nothing goes out unless the user physically transfers it. People