Your Weekly Privacy & Security Wins 🏆 (Week 61, Aug 1 2025)

My wins for the past few weeks are as follows:

I hardened Signal, and in particular set chats to disappear after 1-2 weeks. I used to do that kind of stuff with snapchat, but that’s not secure compared to signal.

Deleted all social media (this was a long process that lasted about a month, but aside from youtube and reddit, I am not on social media)

Got proton unlimited - I’m very excited! The truth is I never liked surfsharks interface much, and it had kind of a lot of problems. I am hoping proton vpn works better. I am also thinking about moving my dropbox (once I can cull it) to my proton drive. Although I’ve read some negative reddit reviews of the drive, which of course, I should take with a grain of salt.

I have hardened my iPhone. I probably won’t have graphene as my primary phone, but may have it as a second phone. On my iPhone, I personally think the biggest improvement is getting rid of FaceID and changing it to a 6 digit pin. It’s not perfect, but it’s better.

Edit: I forgot to add this - I used the Privacy card today for the first time! Very excited about that.

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