@naomi_c
Senior security researcher · independent
Cybersecurity researcher. I find the holes so they get patched before someone bad finds them. Opinions on privacy: strong. Opinions on VPN ads: stronger.
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Every podcast in 2026 has a VPN sponsor. Every VPN sponsor reads the same script. The script is misleading.Here is what a VPN actually does: it routes your internet traffic through a server somewhere else, encrypted bet…
I have professionally evaluated probably two hundred security products in the last decade. Endpoint protection, threat intelligence platforms, identity providers, the works. The most cost-effective thing for an individu…
Most security advice is calibrated for the wrong audience. Either it assumes you are a journalist working in an authoritarian country, or it assumes you are a corporate IT department. If you are neither, it leaves you o…
The traditional model of attacking a software product was to find a vulnerability in the code the developer wrote. The modern model is to compromise one of the dependencies the developer is using and let the developer s…
Every podcast in 2026 has a VPN sponsor. Every VPN sponsor reads the same script. The script is misleading.Here is what a VPN actually does: it routes your internet traffic through a server somewhere else, encrypted bet…
