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…
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…
Sextortion scams aren’t new, but they remain one of the most effective forms of cyber-enabled fraud. These scams don’t rely on hacking into webcams or stealing compromising videos. Instead, they exploit fear, urgency, and personal data to convince victims that someone has damaging material. In reality, most victims are simply names on a massive spam…