Reporting for the week the bill arrives.
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Most password advice treats security as a test of personal discipline, but the party storing the credential decides more of the outcome than the person typing it.
Joaquin Salcedo·Tech·4 min
A practical audit of the tools and paperwork behind household passwords, written from the side of the person who has to call support and prove who they are.
Joaquin Salcedo·Tech·5 min
A breach notice is written by a committee you never meet. Knowing who drafted which paragraph tells you which phone number is worth dialing and which is not.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Tech·4 min
Sync folders, external drives and hosted backup services fail in different ways, and the difference only shows up when someone other than you tries to get the files back.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Tech·4 min
A small insurance agency licensed in two states kept two password policies, and the audit settled which one was doing real work and which was decoration.
Hilde Brekke·Tech·4 min
Most household data losses are never filed under backup failure. Here is how to tell a copy that will restore from one that only looks like it will.
Hilde Brekke·Tech·5 min
A breach notice from a large provider or its vendor is written by lawyers, and the verbs decide what you should do first. Here is how to read one and work it in order.
Joaquin Salcedo·Tech·6 min
A six-person design studio thought it had backups. A four-hour restore test found what the green checkmarks were actually covering, and what fixing it cost.
Hilde Brekke·Tech·5 min