A writer’s work, identity, and income all live online, which makes protecting them non-negotiable. These posts cover phone and home-computer security, social-media privacy, and what decades in enterprise IT taught about staying safe on the internet.
CybersecurityAbout 100 spam emails a day were getting past years of hand-built filter rules. So I pointed my domain's MX records at the MXGuardian gateway. One user with seven aliases costs $4.50 a month, setup took one evening, and the…
MarketingInternet trolls exist to provoke and disrupt, not communicate. Here is what attracts them, how they operate, and why you cannot win by engaging.
AEOGoogle's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…
Critical ThinkingTrolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
Book ReviewsA former famous hacker turned security consultant on how to be online without leaving a trace, an eye-opener on how thoroughly you are tracked and what to do about it. Valuable to anyone online, including writers. The 2017 technical specifics…
CybersecurityA name I had not seen in thirteen years appeared in my Facebook messages, an old friend who within a few lines had no money for food. I knew where it was going before she got there, because being scammed…
LinkedInThat your LinkedIn account has been restricted notice is a gut punch, because for most professionals the platform is where expertise lives and prospects gather. When it goes dark, so does all of that. Drawing on decades in computer operations,…
Online Safety for WritersEvery like, share, and photo you post is data, collected, stored, analyzed, and frequently sold. Most people know that in the abstract and almost no one grasps it in practice. Drawing on 20 years running enterprise computer operations, here is…
BackupsCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
BiasOpen YouTube and there it is, the echo chamber at its most charismatic: someone in ring-lit 4K talking to you like a best friend, therapist, and prophet at once, handing you certainty instead of facts, plus merch and a Patreon…
AI WritingYour phone holds your banking apps, your private photos, and the keys to your whole online life, and most writers guard it with nothing. One careless gap, a missing PIN, a reused password, turns a misplaced phone into a genuine…
BackupsOne wrong line in robots.txt and I told every search engine on Earth to ignore my entire site, which promptly vanished from Google. I caught it fast; unmonitored, it could have stayed gone for weeks. It is the most powerful,…
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