Old recovery emails and phone numbers silently link forgotten accounts, fuel data broker profiles, and enable account takeovers. This guide shows how to systematically uncover and neutralize them before they expose you again.
Digital cleanup is sold as a weekend fix. Delete accounts. Change passwords. Install tools. Feel safe. Then everything comes back. This is why cleanup fails and why structure is the only thing that actually works.
Most identity failures are slow and invisible. One reused email. One familiar username. One forgotten recovery address. This guide walks through a controlled email and username breakup workflow to permanently separate personal, work, and decoy identities without starting over.
Username collision is how personal accounts, work identities, and online history quietly merge through reused or similar usernames. This guide explains how collision happens, why it cannot be reversed, and how to design naming, email, and behavioral separation that prevents identity correlation before it wrecks your operational space.
Your alias and username strategy determines whether your identities stay separated or collapse into one searchable profile. This guide shows how to build work IDs that accumulate reputation without linking back to you, and decoy identities that absorb spam, breaches, and data broker scraping. If you want real identity compartmentalization instead of cleanup theater, this is the system that actually holds up. Full article on site.
Your password manager is not just a security tool. It is a complete historical ledger of your online footprint including forgotten accounts, abandoned services, and old identities still tied to you. Full article on site.
The idea was simple. I wanted to build a Tor only lane for phones. A small box hosting a Tor gateway and a WiFi signal that phones could connect to. Everything goes through Tor. Not a VPN. Not an app. A network boundary that enforced Tor whether the device liked it or not. No settings. … Read more
Your digital footprint is bigger than you think and built from identifiers you never meant to share. This 2026 cleanup guide walks you through mapping hidden accounts, replacing your identifier layer, purging metadata residue, neutralizing data brokers, and rebuilding a minimal footprint that stops profiling at the source. A focused, practical system for shrinking exposure … Read more
How I Turned an Old Laptop Into a Local Only Workstation
Most users rely on outdated long term PGP keys and a broken Web of Trust, leaving their digital identity fragile and exposed. This guide breaks down a modern identity model built on annual PGP key rotation and a durable Nostr private key, creating a cryptographically verifiable ownership system that resists revocation, compromise, and platform control. … Read more