Blog & References
Privacy insights, technical analysis, and long-running references from CodaMail’s founder and engineering team.
Three references we maintain continuously. Bookmark them.
Privacy Law Directory
38+ jurisdictions across US federal/state, EU, and the wider world. Data-protection regimes, surveillance powers, encryption restrictions, intelligence-sharing alliances, and the actual enforcement record. Updated monthly with current events.
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Data Broker Directory
1,700+ named entities across 17 categories — adtech, consumer, financial, health, location, employment, insurance, education, and more. Who has your data, where they got it, who they sell it to, with sourced profiles and opt-out information.
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VPN Infrastructure Exposed
Who really runs your VPN. Corporate ownership chains, jurisdiction shopping, logging contradictions, and what the marketing leaves out. A technical look at the gap between “no logs” claims and operational reality.
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Stephen Gielda is the founder of Packetderm, LLC, the company behind CodaMail and Cotse.Net. Steve has 30 years of computer security and privacy experience and has been running privacy services since 1997.
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Analysis
The Truth About Zero Knowledge / Zero Trust
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Comparison
Understanding E2EE, TLS/SSL, and Zero Access Storage
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Analysis
The Walled Garden Approach: What Privacy Email Services Don’t Tell You About E2EE
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Analysis
Why You Should Never Let a Provider Generate or Store Your Private Key
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Analysis
Why Commercial Open Source Is Not a Trust Model
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Privacy
The Hidden Web — What You Don’t See Is Watching You
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Privacy
Your Phone Is A Military Target
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Analysis
The Myth of Jurisdictional Privacy
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Future
The Future of Privacy