Privacy
Privacy & Personal Security
Everything else on this site is about finding people. This section is the same knowledge pointed the other way — what’s exposed about you, and what you can actually do about it.
- What Investigators Can Find Out About You What the paid databases actually return, written by someone who runs them.
- Staying Anonymous Online What a VPN really hides, what Tor hides, and why fingerprinting beats both.
- How to Stop Your Phone Tracking You Permissions, location services, and the one method you can’t switch off.
- How to Freeze Your Credit All three bureaus, free, in about fifteen minutes.
- Signal, and Why Investigators Use It End-to-end encryption without the tabloid framing.
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The Social Media Investigator’s Guide
The other side of this section. How accounts are traced and verified, how deleted posts are recovered, and how a digital footprint gets assembled into an identity. If you want to know what’s exposed about you, it helps to watch someone do it. 90 minutes, 13 lectures, $49.99.
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