(Modified:
2026-09-11)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 8 min read
Flock Safety does not sell cameras. It sells a subscription to warrantless movement data. Here is how the sales pitch works, how it runs against the Fourth Amendment, and why the fight is about the pitch, not the company.
(Modified:
2026-09-12)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 8 min read
Learn what sandboxed Google Play changes on GrapheneOS, when a separate profile helps, and how accounts, notifications, and app compatibility fit together.
(Modified:
2026-09-11)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 10 min read
Build a Microsoft SOC home lab with Sentinel, Defender, Intune, and Entra. Practice incident investigation, validate passkey policies, and document portfolio evidence.
(Modified:
2026-09-11)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 11 min read
A practical tour of the most common cyberattack types, the evidence each one leaves behind in logs and telemetry, and how to practice detecting them in a home security lab.
(Modified:
2026-09-12)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 8 min read
Understand T-Mobile 5G Home Internet port-forwarding limits, carrier NAT, and practical options for reaching a home server without a public inbound port.
(Modified:
2026-09-21)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 23 min read
Flock-You users are reporting zero detections on drives that used to catch cameras every time. Here is what changed in Flock Safety’s hardware, why BLE and the old management AP both stopped working, how the open-source detection community responded, and an emerging infrared-based detection approach that skips WiFi entirely.
(Modified:
2026-09-02)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 13 min read
A practical comparison of Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum for off-grid and community mesh networking. Covers routing architecture, hop limits and airtime, static infrastructure versus roaming nodes, and when transport-independent networking with Reticulum genuinely solves a real problem.
(Modified:
2026-08-28)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 9 min read
A grab bag of practical tips for field IT work outside hardware, power, and connectivity planning. Covers spares kits, documentation, ESD standards, firmware and boot media integrity, offline software licensing, physical security, travel logistics, equipment insurance, and small habits preventing big field failures.
(Modified:
2026-08-28)
— Written by
SimeonOnSecurity— 9 min read
How to connect and secure a compact edge-compute node deployed away from a trusted network. Covers cellular, satellite, and LoRa mesh uplinks, VPN tunnel-back architectures, multi-factor authentication, VLAN segmentation, centralized logging, ECC memory, at-rest encryption, and tamper and theft response for field IT.
