The Best Password Managers In 2026
Add "easily improve my cybersecurity" to your New Years Resolution with one of these options.
Nathan Bartram
Why Privacy Feels Impossible (And What to Do Instead)
Privacy can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to strive for perfect privacy because it doesn't exist.
2025 Transparency Report
2025 was a hell of a year. In so many ways. But in most ways, it was positive for The New Oil. Let's check it out and see what's ahead.
2025 Goals
Last year my main goal was to manage my time and continue putting out
Book Review: "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams
When people started buzzing about Careless People, I admit that I found myself thinking "who cares? Meta is a morally rotten company run by greedy, out-of-touch sleezeballs? This isn't news." But as more and more people talked about it and I began to hear it discussed
Should You Wipe Your Phone When Getting Arrested?
Privacy isn’t just about data. It’s about control. We often use security as a means to enforce privacy - for example, encryption forces providers to respect our wishes rather than simply pinky-promising they won't do anything untoward. And threat modeling requires us to ask ourselves to
Privacy is a Marathon
On a recent episode of This Week In Privacy, one of the Q&A questions asked "With it being Thanksgiving week in the US, what is one development in the privacy world that you are grateful for this year?"
Currently, we lose more than we win in
How to Shop Online Privately Without Causing a Scene
Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell released a video in which she shared the struggles one of her community members experienced trying to buy a new guitar online. The longer the video went on, the more I found myself saying things like "well obviously that caused problems" and "why would