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.
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…
Online Safety for WritersThat 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…
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…
ComplianceCybersecurity experts know their field cold; most just cannot turn that knowledge into writing that builds authority or draws clients. The expertise is there, the communication is not, and that is the gap. Drawing on 20+ years in security operations…
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,…
BackupsFour words hit like a sledgehammer: this site can't be reached. My hosting company had vanished overnight and taken two years of content and custom work with it. A real backup strategy is not optional; it is the only thing…
Authority Through AuthorshipThose black-and-white squares hold up to 4,296 characters and work with any phone camera, making QR codes a wildly underused bridge from your printed book to email lists, bonus content, and sales, and a real security risk if you are…
Online Safety for WritersI have been online since dial-up and working with computers since the 1970s, back before the internet had pictures. Four decades in, I have learned safety the hard way and by watching others pay for their mistakes. This is not…
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