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Insights on post-quantum encryption, email security, and digital privacy.

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Are free VPNs safe? What a study of 281 apps found

A VPN sends every site you open and every app that phones home through one company's servers. Your internet provider stops seeing where you go, and the VPN company starts. So a VPN never removes the p...

Adrian Maverick · · 10 min read
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Can my boss read my Slack messages? DMs included

You typed something into a direct message you would never say in a meeting. About your manager, a recruiter, your salary, your health. The header said "Direct message," and it felt like a closed door....

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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Can my ISP see my browsing history? Yes, every site

There are two popular beliefs about internet providers, and both are wrong. One says your ISP reads everything, down to what you type into a search box. The other says the HTTPS padlock made your ISP ...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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Does Google's AI read your Gmail? What Gemini can see

Every few months a headline says Google's AI is reading your inbox, then Google says it isn't, and both are partly right. They are talking about different things. Here is what actually happens to your...

Adrian Maverick · · 10 min read
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How to keep your email private: the complete checklist

Most advice on email privacy fixes one thing. Alias guides hide your address and stop there. Security guides tell you to turn on two-factor and call it privacy. Encryption guides skip the inbox you al...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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How to send an encrypted email: Outlook, Gmail, iPhone

Most guides to sending an encrypted email stop at "click Encrypt." That gets the message past snoops on the network, but it rarely stops your own email provider from reading it. Below are the exact st...

Adrian Maverick · · 10 min read
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How to stop email tracking in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail

Open a marketing email and, before you have read a word, the sender often knows you opened it, when, and roughly where you were. That is a tracking pixel at work, and in most mail apps the off switch ...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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Is Gmail private? What Google can still see in 2026

"Google doesn't read your email anymore" is one of the most repeated reassurances on the internet. It is half true, and the half that is true is the least important part....

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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Is Google Drive private? What Google can see (2026)

Your Google Drive files are encrypted. That sentence is true, and it is also the reason so many people assume Drive is private when it is not. The question that matters is not whether the files are en...

Adrian Maverick · · 10 min read
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Is my email encrypted? How to check in Gmail and Outlook

Your email is almost certainly encrypted on its way between servers. Whether it is encrypted so that nobody else can read it is a different question, and the padlock in your inbox does not answer it. ...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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Is Signal safer than email? When to use each, and why

Ask whether Signal or encrypted email is safer and you get a quick answer: Signal. For a private conversation, that is right. But it answers a narrower question than most people are asking, because Si...

Adrian Maverick · · 7 min read
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Is Zoom private? When Zoom calls are end-to-end encrypted

You have probably said something on a Zoom call you would not want read back to you. A diagnosis. A salary. A lawyer's advice. Whether that call was private depends on a setting most people have never...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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Most private email service in 2026: 4 tests that decide it

Every "best private email" list puts a brand at number one and moves on. That skips the part you actually need: how to tell whether a provider can read your mail, and whether it will still be private ...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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What does zero-knowledge mean? Both meanings, explained

Search "zero-knowledge" and you get two sets of answers that seem to disagree. One says it is a way to prove something is true without revealing why. The other says it is a way to store data so the co...

Adrian Maverick · · 10 min read
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What is a tracking pixel? How the invisible image tracks you

There is probably an image on most pages you visit today that you will never see. One pixel wide, one pixel tall, usually transparent. It does nothing for you. It exists to tell a company that you arr...

Adrian Maverick · · 9 min read
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Metadata privacy: what the envelope reveals about you

Picture a sealed envelope going through the post. Nobody opens it. But the outside still says who sent it, who it is for, the postmark, and the date. Do that once and it means nothing. Do it for every...

Adrian Maverick · · 10 min read
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What is post-quantum encryption? A plain-English guide

Somewhere, someone is saving encrypted data they cannot read yet: login sessions, medical portal traffic, old email. They are betting that a future machine will open it. That bet is why "post-quantum"...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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Secria V2 Is Here

Secria turned one this week. We marked it by shipping v2, the biggest update in our history: Secria Mail and Secria VPN, both rebuilt. Mail v2 is live for every account right now, web and mobile. Noth...

Filip Balik · · 3 min read
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Is My Car Spying on Me? Yes, and It May Have Sold the Receipts to Your Insurer

Some drivers found out their car was tracking them the same way you find out about a hidden charge. Their insurance quote jumped, and nobody could explain why....

Adrian Maverick · · 11 min read
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Is Incognito Mode Actually Private? What It Hides and What It Doesn't

Open a private window and the browser tells you a little story. Chrome shows a hat and glasses and the words "You've gone Incognito." Firefox gives you a purple mask. The whole design says: you are hi...

Adrian Maverick · · 11 min read
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Apple Is Suing the UK Over an iCloud Backdoor. Your British Photos Are Already Readable Anyway.

Picture a person in London. iPhone in their pocket, iCloud switched on, photos and notes and a full device backup syncing to Apple the way they have for years. This week Apple went to court to defend ...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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Why Quantum Is Suddenly Everywhere (And What Q-Day Means for Your Data)

Quantum is everywhere now. It's in the headlines, in government budgets, in every major tech company's roadmap. A few years ago it was a physics topic. Today it's an industry. And when something moves...

Filip Balik · · 4 min read
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Your iPhone Now Warns You When Apple's AI Sends Your Data to Google. Read That Warning Carefully.

There is a new box that pops up on iPhones this summer. You are using an AI feature, generating a shape in Pages, cleaning up a note, and a permission alert appears telling you the request is being pr...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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Are Tracking Pixels Illegal? Courts Spent All of 2026 Fighting About It. Here Is What They Actually Do to You.

If you followed privacy news this year, you saw the same headline over and over. Tracking pixels are illegal. Courts are cracking down. Meta and Google are in trouble....

Adrian Maverick · · 6 min read
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Secria Launches Post-Quantum VPN, Expanding Its Privacy Ecosystem to 25,000+ Users

Backed by the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator, Secria adds a no-logs, post-quantum VPN to the encrypted email platform that launched less than a year ago. DOVER, DE, UNITED STATES, July 15, 2026. Sec...

Adrian Maverick · · 3 min read
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Why You Actually Need a VPN (And Why We're Launching One)

Your internet provider has a list of every website you've opened. Not a summary, the actual addresses, with timestamps. In plenty of countries it's perfectly legal for them to package that up and sell...

Filip Balik · · 3 min read
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Instagram Just Removed End-to-End Encryption from DMs. Here's What It Actually Means.

As of today, May 8, 2026, end-to-end encryption is gone from Instagram direct messages. Meta confirmed the change earlier this year and is rolling it out to all users today. This is a notable moment f...

Adrian Maverick · · 5 min read
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The State of Email Encryption in 2026

Email is over fifty years old. The encryption protecting it is, in most cases, a thin layer of TLS bolted on decades after the protocol was designed. In 2026, the gap between what people think their e...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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How Email Encryption Actually Works (And Why Most of It Isn't Enough)

You've probably seen the little lock icon in your browser and assumed your emails are safe. They're encrypted, right? Technically yes. But that word covers a lot of ground. And most of the time, it co...

Adrian Maverick · · 5 min read
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What Zero-Knowledge Email Actually Means (And Why Most Providers Fail)

"We take your privacy seriously." You've seen that line a thousand times. Usually right before a company explains how they process your data to serve you better ads. Email providers love the word "enc...

Adrian Maverick · · 4 min read
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Secria Launches Mobile Apps: Post-Quantum Encrypted Email on iOS and Android

Secria Launches Mobile Apps: Bringing Post-Quantum Encrypted Email to iOS and Android Quantum-resistant email now available on all major platforms...

Adrian Maverick · · 2 min read
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Why Post-Quantum Email Encryption Matters Now

The encryption protecting your emails right now has an expiry date. RSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman. All of it will be broken by quantum computers. And the scary part isn't some far-off future scenario. The ...

Adrian Maverick · · 4 min read