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2026·01·24 What I deliberately left off Post four of six on the Covert Cyber Deck. Every component is a question. These are the things I chose not to include — Bluetooth on the management plane, a camera, GPS, cellular, several others — and the single question that flushed each one out. cyberdeck · subtraction · privacy · craft 7 min 2025·11·22 The threat model, written down Post two of six on the Covert Cyber Deck. The threat model I have spent the last month writing down — what I am protecting against, what I am not, and why putting it in plain English changed the rest of the build. cyberdeck · threat-model · privacy · sovereignty 6 min 2025·10·18 Building a machine I can fully describe First in a six-post series on the Covert Cyber Deck — a portable slate I am building around a Pi CM5, two SDRs, a custom carrier PCB, and a hardened Ubuntu. The argument is not the hardware. It is what designing it forces you to think about. cyberdeck · privacy · sovereignty · craft 6 min 2025·05·13 Cross-tenant intelligence: the privacy architecture problem Post 12 of the AI series. The architecture that turns one customer's experience into another's protection — without exposing either to the other. The privacy engineering problem nobody in the LLM space is talking about, and EmilyAI's seven principles. ai · soc · privacy · architecture · series 8 min 2024·11·19 Passing it on: to the next director, to your children Part 18 of 18, the closing post. The privacy work you have done over the last two years has to outlive you in the role. How to write it down, how to teach it, and how to make sure the people who inherit it can actually use it. privacy · series · ned · closing 6 min 2024·10·22 Building a personal privacy posture Part 17 of 18. Sixteen posts of specifics, condensed into a posture rather than a list. The five sentences that should govern personal privacy for a board director and their household. How to keep it current. privacy · synthesis · ned · series 7 min 2024·09·17 The AI year, deepfakes, and what changes for children Part 16 of 18, last of the five children-focused posts. Generative AI changed what 'a picture of a child' can mean. What parents should be alert to in 2024, what is genuinely new, and the practical conversations that still work. privacy · children · ai · deepfake · series 8 min 2024·07·23 Hotels, conferences, and public Wi-Fi Part 15 of 18, third and last of the travel posts. The day-to-day mechanics — the hotel network, the conference Wi-Fi, the airport lounge, the coffee shop on the way to the meeting. The small kit and habits that compound over a year of travel. privacy · travel · ned · series 7 min 2024·05·21 Clean devices and selective sync Part 14 of 18, second of three travel posts. The clean travel laptop and phone, what to put on them, what to leave at home, and how to remain effective without exposing the whole work footprint. privacy · travel · ned · series 7 min 2024·04·23 International travel and jurisdictional risk Part 13 of 18, first of three travel posts. What actually changes when you cross a border — customs powers over devices, foreign-state interest, the practical implications of which countries you are visiting. Without the paranoid framing. privacy · travel · ned · series 8 min 2024·02·20 Board portals and document handling Part 12 of 18. Diligent, BoardEffect, Nasdaq Boards, the email-attachment habit, and the moments in board-paper handling when sensitive material is most likely to leak. The practical posture for non-executive directors. privacy · work · ned · board-portal · series 7 min 2023·12·12 Assistants, drivers, and household staff Part 11 of 18. The people around a senior board director are, for practical purposes, part of the security boundary. The standing rules that protect everyone — the executive, the staff, the relationship — without becoming surveillance. privacy · work · ned · staff · series 7 min 2023·11·14 23andMe, and the data with the longest half-life Last month 23andMe disclosed that attackers used credential stuffing against accounts opted in to relative-matching to scrape data on roughly 6.9 million people. The board lesson is about which data has the longest half-life — and it is not what most firms think. privacy · breach · governance · ned 6 min 2023·10·17 The board director's public exposure Part 10 of 18. Companies House, LinkedIn, conference speaker lists, the corporate website. The footprint your board role creates whether you want it or not, and the small set of choices that determine how much it reveals. privacy · work · ned · series 7 min 2023·09·12 Financial and identity hygiene at home Part 9 of 18. Credit freezes, the paper post, joint advisors, mortgage and bank communications, the family-office channel. The unglamorous half of personal privacy that, when neglected, costs the most. privacy · home · financial · identity · series 8 min 2023·08·15 Photo backup, family chat groups, and the extended family Part 8 of 18. iCloud, Google Photos, WhatsApp family chats, grandparents on Facebook. The household network you actually live in is wider than the four walls of the house. What to do about it without becoming the family killjoy. privacy · home · series · family 7 min 2023·07·11 Gaming, voice chat, and the communities that look least like social media Part 7 of 18, fourth of five children-focused posts. Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, Discord. The environments where British children spend more time than they spend on social media, what the risks actually look like, and what to do. privacy · children · gaming · series 8 min 2023·06·13 Children, social media, and the parent's reasonable role Part 6 of 18, third of five children-focused posts. The conversation about social media most parents avoid, written for the board-director parent who wants to be present without being absurd. privacy · children · social media · series 8 min 2023·05·16 School accounts and edtech: the parent's reasonable role Part 5 of 18, second of five children-focused posts. Schools collect a remarkable amount of data on children. Some of it is necessary; some of it is not. What a board-director parent should ask, and what they are entitled to. privacy · children · school · edtech · series 8 min 2023·04·18 The digital footprint we create for our children before they can speak Part 4 of 18, first of the children-focused posts. The photos, the school records, the birthday Facebook posts, the WhatsApp groups, the smart toys. What we lay down for our children, before they have any say. privacy · children · series · ned 8 min 2023·03·21 The smart-home dilemma Part 3 of 18. Alexa, Ring, the smart thermostat, the smart TV, the connected fridge. The devices you have invited into your kitchen and what they are actually doing while you sleep. privacy · home · iot · series 7 min 2023·02·28 The home network you live on Part 2 of 18. Your home Wi-Fi router is the only thing between everything connected in your house and the rest of the internet. What boards should ask their household to look at this weekend. privacy · home · series · ned 7 min 2023·02·07 Digital privacy for board directors: the eighteen-post version An honest start to a long series. What digital privacy actually means for a board director in 2023, why the home / travel / work boundary is the right framing even though it leaks, and why children deserve four of the eighteen posts. privacy · ned · board · series 6 min 2021·08·17 Pegasus, and the question for UK boards we have been pretending not to face The Pegasus Project disclosures last month confirmed what specialists have privately known for years: commercial spyware is a mature, well-funded industry, and its customer list includes governments most UK firms do business with. The board question is what to do about it. spyware · privacy · ned · governance 7 min