What Happens to Your Data When a Fintech Shuts Down?
The legal, regulatory, and security realities of customer data, bank tokens, and transaction history when a fintech company goes bankrupt.
Security & privacy teardowns
What each money app can read, how it authenticates, where your credentials end up, and who is legally accountable when something goes wrong.
What Your Bank Transaction History Actually Reveals About You
A security architect's analysis of how metadata, timestamps, and merchant codes in raw bank transaction feeds reconstruct intimate personal lives.
How to Audit Which Apps Can Reach Your Money
Access granted years ago usually still works. The six registers to check, why revoking in the app is not enough, and a routine that takes thirty minutes.
"Bank-Level Security" and Other Claims That Mean Nothing
Some security marketing carries information and some is pure decoration. How to tell them apart, and the five questions that get a real answer.
How to Read a Privacy Policy in Fifteen Minutes
Skip the introduction. Six sections carry all the information, and four phrases tell you what the document is really doing. A reading method, not a summary.
What a Data Breach Notification Actually Tells You
Breach emails are drafted by lawyers to be accurate and uninformative. The specific words that carry meaning, and what to do in the first 48 hours.
What App Permissions Actually Grant on iOS and Android
The permission prompt is the visible part. What an app reads without asking, and which grants are far broader than their labels suggest.