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Who it is for

The explainers are written for people who use phones, computers and home Wi-Fi every day without being technology specialists: households setting up a router, people helping a parent with a new phone, anyone who has received a message that did not feel right. No previous knowledge is assumed, and terms are explained in the glossary.

Explainers, not news

Despite the name, this site does not publish daily news. It publishes evergreen explainers: lasting basics such as how passwords are stolen or why backups need testing, which change slowly. Each explainer is re-checked against its sources rather than rewritten every day, and the date it was published and checked is shown at the top. For current alerts about a specific scam or security problem, the agencies named on each page publish their own up-to-date guidance.

The domain was used in the past for a different, unrelated website. This edition is a new site and shares nothing with it but the name.

How it was made

The site was planned and drafted with an AI system, working from official guidance published by CISA, NIST, the FTC, the FCC, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the FIDO Alliance and the Internet standards published by the RFC Editor. Every explainer names the documents it is based on and paraphrases them as the author understood them. On the date shown on each explainer, the cited documents were confirmed to be online; a line-by-line comparison of each explainer with the current text of those documents has not been done yet.

The explainers have not yet been reviewed by an independent human editor. Until they have, read them as a careful starting point and confirm anything important against the cited documents, which are the authority.

The illustrations and the logo were drawn for this site as simple vector graphics. They are diagrams, not photographs, and do not show real people, homes or products.

What it does not do

It does not sell anything, offer technical support or recommend products by brand.
It does not promise that following its advice will keep any account or device safe. The steps reduce risk; nothing removes it.
It carries no advertising, affiliate links or sponsored content.
It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking scripts.

Contact

There is no contact route yet: no form, email address or phone number. If one is added later, it will be listed on this page. The editorial policy explains how errors are handled in the meantime. If you think you have been scammed or an account has been taken over, contact the service involved through its official website or app, and see the reporting routes in the phishing explainer.