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Secria V2 Is Here

Secria turned one this week. We marked it by shipping v2, the biggest update in our history: Secria Mail and Secria VPN, both rebuilt....

Filip Balik · · 3 min read
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Is My Car Spying on Me? Yes, and It May Have Sold the Receipts to Your Insurer

Some drivers found out their car was tracking them the same way you find out about a hidden charge. Their insurance quote jumped, and nobody could explain why....

Adrian Maverick · · 11 min read
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Is Incognito Mode Actually Private? What It Hides and What It Doesn't

Open a private window and the browser tells you a little story. Chrome shows a hat and glasses and the words "You've gone Incognito." Firefox gives you a purple mask. The whole design says: you are hi...

Adrian Maverick · · 11 min read
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Apple Is Suing the UK Over an iCloud Backdoor. Your British Photos Are Already Readable Anyway.

Picture a person in London. iPhone in their pocket, iCloud switched on, photos and notes and a full device backup syncing to Apple the way they have for years. This week Apple went to court to defend ...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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Why Quantum Is Suddenly Everywhere (And What Q-Day Means for Your Data)

Quantum is everywhere now. It's in the headlines, in government budgets, in every major tech company's roadmap. A few years ago it was a physics topic. Today it's an industry. And when something moves...

Filip Balik · · 4 min read
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Your iPhone Now Warns You When Apple's AI Sends Your Data to Google. Read That Warning Carefully.

There is a new box that pops up on iPhones this summer. You are using an AI feature, generating a shape in Pages, cleaning up a note, and a permission alert appears telling you the request is being pr...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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Are Tracking Pixels Illegal? Courts Spent All of 2026 Fighting About It. Here Is What They Actually Do to You.

If you followed privacy news this year, you saw the same headline over and over. Tracking pixels are illegal. Courts are cracking down. Meta and Google are in trouble....

Adrian Maverick · · 6 min read
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Secria Launches Post-Quantum VPN, Expanding Its Privacy Ecosystem to 25,000+ Users

Backed by the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator, Secria adds a no-logs, post-quantum VPN to the encrypted email platform that launched less than a year ago. DOVER, DE, UNITED STATES, July 15, 2026. Sec...

Adrian Maverick · · 3 min read
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Why You Actually Need a VPN (And Why We're Launching One)

Your internet provider has a list of every website you've opened. Not a summary, the actual addresses, with timestamps. In plenty of countries it's perfectly legal for them to package that up and sell...

Filip Balik · · 3 min read
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Instagram Just Removed End-to-End Encryption from DMs. Here's What It Actually Means.

As of today, May 8, 2026, end-to-end encryption is gone from Instagram direct messages. Meta confirmed the change earlier this year and is rolling it out to all users today. This is a notable moment f...

Adrian Maverick · · 5 min read
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The State of Email Encryption in 2026

Email is over fifty years old. The encryption protecting it is, in most cases, a thin layer of TLS bolted on decades after the protocol was designed. In 2026, the gap between what people think their e...

Adrian Maverick · · 8 min read
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How Email Encryption Actually Works (And Why Most of It Isn't Enough)

You've probably seen the little lock icon in your browser and assumed your emails are safe. They're encrypted, right? Technically yes. But that word covers a lot of ground. And most of the time, it co...

Adrian Maverick · · 5 min read
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What Zero-Knowledge Email Actually Means (And Why Most Providers Fail)

"We take your privacy seriously." You've seen that line a thousand times. Usually right before a company explains how they process your data to serve you better ads. Email providers love the word "enc...

Adrian Maverick · · 5 min read
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Secria Launches Mobile Apps: Post-Quantum Encrypted Email on iOS and Android

Secria Launches Mobile Apps: Bringing Post-Quantum Encrypted Email to iOS and Android Quantum-resistant email now available on all major platforms...

Adrian Maverick · · 2 min read
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Why Post-Quantum Email Encryption Matters Now

The encryption protecting your emails right now has an expiry date. RSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman. All of it will be broken by quantum computers. And the scary part isn't some far-off future scenario. The ...

Adrian Maverick · · 4 min read