At ObscureIQ, we’re rolling out ThreatWatch. It’s our new active threat monitoring service. Looking for threats forces us to think differently. About how signals get buried. Hidden in places most people overlook. What looks like harmless chatter, a playful meme, or even a gaming mod can sometimes carry a very different meaning. The new language…
Stalkers, advertisers, and hostile actors are digging for your data every day. Your phone is revealing your location. Your credit card transactions are leaving a trail. Adtech building a profile of your habits. The digital world thrives on surveillance. The good news? You don’t have to make it easy for them. Here are five power…
Secure Messaging in 2025: What You Need to Know Messaging isn’t just conversation. It’s exposure. The app you use determines whether your words are private or harvested, whether your metadata is locked down or handed over. At ObscureIQ, we stress one thing above all: use encrypted messaging. Any encrypted platform is better than plain SMS,…
When you want to make online payments without leaving a clear personal trail, prepaid cards can be powerful tools. But not all prepaid options offer the same level of privacy. Some can be bought with cash and used instantly, while others demand identity verification (KYC) that defeats the whole purpose. Here’s how the most popular…
Tactical Privacy: Email Address Strategy The longer you hold onto an email address, the more data brokers can cluster around it. Every subscription, login, and breach adds to the dossier. Over years, that identifier becomes a permanent key into your digital life. Switching email addresses (and keeping them private) is tactical privacy. It breaks aggregation…
What You Need to Know Most phones are built to track you. Carriers want your ID, platforms want your accounts, and resellers keep logs. If you want a device that doesn’t tie back to your identity, you must be deliberate about how you buy it. We’ve put together a full guide on buying a used…
The Truth About Encrypted Cloud Storage: Which Option Protects You Best? Cloud storage has become unavoidable. Every document, photo, and message we put online has the potential to be harvested, sold, or weaponized against us. That’s why the first rule of protecting your digital perimeter is simple: Any encrypted cloud storage is better than the…
Letting AI Summarize Unknown Email, Docs… Gives attackers a way to execute hidden commands. Your “summary” is their payload. AI is being forced into everything. Now it’s in Gmail. And it’s exploitable. This is a problem Google is trying to address but it’s not an easy fix. We also don’t believe that it’s a problem…
OIQ Briefing: Best Browsers for Privacy (2025) Your browser is your first line of defense online. Pick the wrong one, and you’re handing your data to advertisers, tech giants, or worse. Rule #1: Get off Chrome.If you care about privacy, moving away from Chrome should be your top priority. Edge and Opera aren’t much better….
Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation Every week we hear from clients who discover their address, phone number, or family details floating around online. Sometimes it’s buried in a data broker’s report. Other times it’s blasted out on social media in a doxxing attack. At first glance, these seem like two separate worlds: Data…