Digital Self-Defense
Personal security advice usually arrives as either paranoia or product placement. This track is neither. It's a practical field manual for real humans: figure out what you're actually protecting and from whom, then make the handful of high-leverage moves — password manager, MFA, updates, a hardened recovery path — that defeat the vast majority of real-world attacks. Along the way you'll learn how tracking actually works, what a VPN does and doesn't do, and exactly what to do in the first hours after something goes wrong.
What you'll be able to do
- ▸ You'll be able to build a personal threat model and stop wasting effort on threats you don't have.
- ▸ You'll be able to lock down your accounts with a password manager, phishing-resistant MFA, and a hardened recovery path.
- ▸ You'll be able to secure your devices and home network with updates, encryption, and default-killing router hygiene.
- ▸ You'll be able to cut your tracking exposure with browser hardening, E2EE messaging, aliases, and data-broker opt-outs — and explain what a VPN actually buys you.
- ▸ You'll be able to run incident response for yourself and your family: spot the scam, freeze the damage, report it, and recover fast.
Module Path
- 01
Your Threat Model
Security without a threat model is just anxiety with extra steps.
11 min 5 briefings - 02
Lock Your Accounts
One password manager, one good MFA setup, one hardened recovery path — checkmate, bots.
14 min 6 briefings - 03
Device and Network Hygiene
Updates, encryption, and one grumpy hour with your router — the unglamorous trifecta.
13 min 5 briefings - 04
Private by Default
You can't vanish from the internet — but you can stop being the cheapest data on the market.
13 min 5 briefings - 05
Scam-Proof Your Life
Incident response isn't just for companies — it's for the day your phone rings.
14 min 5 briefings