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Draken BlackKnight

Privacy, security, EDC stuff, and general skullduggery.

Format

• Published | Updated | Title

Site stuff

• [2023/01/15] | [2026/05/25] | Changelog/updates

Mobile

• [2023/01/07] | [2024/06/07] | Android vs iPhone vs feature phone/dumbphone
• [2023/11/25] | [2026/03/17] | Android Debloat Guide
• [2023/01/08] | [2026/03/31] | Apps I recommend
• [2026/03/29] | [2026/03/29] | How to harden stock Android
• [2023/01/09] | [2025/02/21] | Recommended keyboards (yes, it matters)
• [2023/01/14] | [2023/11/25] | Recommended messengers
• [2026/05/22] | [2026/05/25] | How to properly configure Signal

General online security

• [2023/01/07] | [2026/03/17] | Browsers I recommend
• [2023/01/08] | [2026/05/25] | Delete Facebook NOW
• [2023/12/21] | [2024/06/07] | Delete X-Twitter
• [2023/05/29] | [2023/11/30] | DNS
• [2023/01/10] | [2024/06/08] | How to configure and use a password manager
• [2023/01/12] | [2024/06/07] | Multi-factor authentication
• [2023/02/18] | [2026/03/17] | uBlock Origin
• [2023/01/14] | [2023/09/04] | Why privacy even matters in the first place

Offline stuff

• [2023/01/07] | [2024/08/17] | Everyday Carry (EDC)
• [2023/01/08] | [2023/06/25] | Self-care

Stuff down the pipeline

• Tor and VPNs
• The importance of compartmentalization
• Search engines
• DeGoogling
• Types of hacking and how to protect yourself
• Mesh networks/LoRa
• More

Helpful links

Google's whitepaper on Android's privacy and security sandboxing This is something to show your friend who claims Android isn't that private and secure.

Apple's whitepaper on iOS/iPadOS sandboxing Another interesting read. Your move, Mobile Linux distros.

Eldritch Data If the format looks familiar to you, it's because I've cribbed a LOT of that website's formatting for my own. The webmaster has a lot of good information on there.

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Carey Parker is a former software engineer at Cisco who wrote a book about how to be more private and secure called...Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons (the 5th edition was JUST released in mid-February). It's a very good book for beginners, pros, and everyone in between. Carey also hosts a podcast by the same name and has interviewed quite a few huge tech names and politicians.

NBTV, with Naomi Brockwell A privacy advocate with a lot of great information.

The Hated One's YouTube channel The Hated One is a YouTuber who creates privacy and security tutorials and informational videos. Some of what he says borders on tinfoil hat territory but the videos are worth watching.

Techlore Another one who does a podcast, not just on YouTube. Takes a more nuanced approach than the Hated One.

The New Oil Yet another podcaster. Informative website but not a lot of videos. He's also featured on...

...Privacy Guides, which is exactly what the name infers. They also release videos on their channels.

Contact

• Session: 051762a9f146687e6471b13c7175c8ef33a2a9869e5471f2dedab2ee68193a2423
• SimpleX: Ask me
• Mastodon: Draken
• Bluesky: Draken BlackKnight
• Discord: drakenblackknight
• I do not have Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or any other of Zuckerberg's properties. I don't care how "private" and "secure" they claim it is, Meta suffers at least one data breach a month on top of Zucc's greedy harvesting and selling of userdata.
• I deleted my Twitter because Elon Musk is notoriously retaliatory and thinks he can do no wrong even when called out on everything he's doing wrong (like spending $44 billion on his idiotic midlife crisis then getting rid of half its staff).
• I do not have Telegram because it's a Russian honeypotnot encrypted by default.

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