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Alec Harris
Alec Harris

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Feb 27

It’s Not Me, It’s You:

Breaking Up With Your Cell Phone Number Any good investigator will tell you that the single best artifact to collect when building a targeting package against a subject is their cell phone number. I don’t speak to data brokers (I’m sure the feeling is mutual) but I suspect they feel the same way about the value of…

Cell Phones

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It’s Not Me, It’s You:
It’s Not Me, It’s You:
Cell Phones

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May 29, 2021

Smart Social Media Use

By Alec Harris & Cody Shultz. A joint privacy series also available here: https://augmentedprivacy.medium.com/ While social media can be a great way to stay in touch with family and friends, particularly during a pandemic, it can have a dark side. More and more we are seeing stories about people that…

Social Media

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Smart Social Media Use
Smart Social Media Use
Social Media

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May 29, 2021

Protecting Your Children’s Credit Score

By Cody Shultz and Alec Harris — A joint series on privacy also available here: https://augmentedprivacy.medium.com/ According to the U.S. credit bureau Experian, identity theft affects about 1 in 20 Americans each year. According to Javelin’s 2020 Identity Fraud Survey, 13 million consumers in the U.S. were affected by identity…

Privacy

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Protecting Your Children’s Credit Score
Protecting Your Children’s Credit Score
Privacy

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May 11, 2021

The Good Kind of Deceit

Big data is not your friend. You though, my crypto owning compatriot, can turn the information sucking tools of the privacy pirates from the data broker industry against themselves. Their methods are so pervasive and so unscrupulous that its actually somewhat easy to manipulate. If you read the first article…

Privacy

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The Good Kind of Deceit
The Good Kind of Deceit
Privacy

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May 11, 2021

Bearer Asset Privacy

Gold, guns, diamonds, bonds, cash, and Bitcoin. If you have bearer assets, assets where custody equals ownership, then you should also be very interested in personal privacy. Admittedly, I’m kind of a one note band, so I think everyone should be interested in personal privacy. In the case of bearer…

Bitcoin

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Bearer Asset Privacy
Bearer Asset Privacy
Bitcoin

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Dec 19, 2020

Nakamoto Consensus: Bitcoin Innovation > Bitcoin Price

Innovations in Bitcoin: Nakamoto Consensus I’m excited about the rise in Bitcoin price too, but the Bitcoin white paper didn’t mention anything about designing an asset with an impressive Sharpe Ratio. If investment thesis is what attracted you to Bitcoin, that’s fine, and I can relate. But, stick around for…

Bitcoin

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Nakamoto Consensus: Bitcoin Innovation > Bitcoin Price
Nakamoto Consensus: Bitcoin Innovation > Bitcoin Price
Bitcoin

6 min read


Nov 30, 2020

Your Phone is a Spy

A cell phone has over 100,000x the processing power of the Apollo Guidance Computer which put a man on the moon. The 5.8in OLED screen flashes with the sum total of human knowledge, and stupidity, no more than a few taps and swipes away. Thanks to my cell phone I…

Privacy Protection

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Pattern of Life: Fingerprint 2.0
Pattern of Life: Fingerprint 2.0
Privacy Protection

6 min read


Sep 11, 2020

Trust Me, I’m Private

There are many threats to privacy. Some systemic, some cultural, some are even well intentioned, like when a bank asks you to prove you are you to open a bank account. Seems fair, right? It’s not. The problem is trust. Trust based systems are an existential threat to privacy. The problem is trust. Trust based systems are an existential threat to privacy. Let’s…

Privacy

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Trust Me, I’m Private
Trust Me, I’m Private
Privacy

5 min read


May 11, 2020

Bitcoin: The Peaceful Halving

Its halving day aka Quantitative Hardening III. Like leap year, it comes once every four years and I’m kind of giddy about it. Much has already been written about the halving and most of it by actual smart people. I have a slightly different take on it though. Since I’m…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin: The Peaceful Halving
Bitcoin: The Peaceful Halving
Bitcoin

7 min read


Apr 19, 2020

WhatsApp: You are the Product

Given the wide distribution of WhatsApp and their parent company Facebook’s pathetic record on privacy I thought it might be fun to unpack the WhatsApp privacy policy in layman’s terms. I should caveat that no matter what we find, WhatsApp is not the worst messaging platform out there. It is…

WhatsApp

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WhatsApp: You are the Product
WhatsApp: You are the Product
WhatsApp

6 min read

Alec Harris

Alec Harris

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Managing Director at Halo Privacy

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