HeyJaredTate's Online Safety Substack
I'm an expert in personal security, privacy, & identity (x-Army, x-USSS Agent, x-Google, Product Leader, Entrepreneur, and Startup Founder). Protecting your privacy and security is more important now than ever.
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Your Router Might Be a Criminal. Here's How to Tell in One Click. (opens the original)
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Your router might be a criminal. I mean, not really, but it might have been hijacked by criminals so they look like they are coming from a normal household instead of where they actually are. These are called “Residential proxies” in cybersecurity circles, because they look like innocent residential traffic, but they aren’t!I just came across a cool tool that makes it easy for anyone to check whether their router is a criminal. Have I Been Proxied (haveibeenproxied.com) is a free tool from Spur
Spam Calls Are a Nuisance and a Risk. Your Phone Already Has Some Fixes. (opens the original)
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US consumers received just under 3.9 billion robocalls in August 2026, according to YouMail’s Robocall Index! Spam calls are not only annoying but also risky because the line between marketing spam and a scam is often thin. And from the perspective of the person receiving these annoying calls, it doesn’t matter.I always recommend a couple of basic actions to help reduce unwanted calls from unknown numbers on your cell phone:Never answer a
Meta launched it’s new AI agent, Muse. Don’t use it. (opens the original)
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Meta launched Muse on September 8 for users in the US. Muse is Meta’s version of an AI agent that does more than chat; it can do things on your behalf like shop, send emails, schedule calendar invites, etc.Readers of my work will be unsurprised that I recommend you do not use Muse, and don’t connect Meta’s new AI agent, Muse, to your email, your calendar, your bank, your health apps, or anything else you care about because I would not trust Meta with this level of access and control of one’s per
The Most Dangerous Thing on Your Driver's License Isn't Your Name or DOB (opens the original)
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Last week, security journalist Brian Krebs found his own driver’s license for sale on a dark web site called Nexus, which claimed to hold scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from people in the US and Canada (Krebs on Security, TechCrunch). Krebs traced the likely source to IDScan, a Louisiana company that verifies IDs for rental car counters, dispensaries, hotels, and retailers, and says it runs m
Announcing the Jacana Free For Victims Program, Because Victims Deserve Something Good (opens the original)
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Every year in the United States and around the world, tens of millions of people are victimized by cybercriminals through scams and other online fraud, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars in losses.Becoming a victim of any crime is very difficult, but cybercrime and scam victims have a tougher time than victims of most other property crimes for four main reasons.1. The system puts the onus on the individual to figure it outThe entire ecosystem and society have placed the onus on the ind
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