Latest Notes and Field Reports
Short dispatches from our editorial desk: planning notes, first-week observations, and follow-up reviews on digital safety topics that matter for households and older readers.
Andrea Lopez Rivera
March 12, 2025
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We sat down with two neighborhood tech volunteers to map out the next issue of Monsieur Secu. The conversation circled around one question: which security topics confuse readers the most when they first open a browser or a banking app. We ended up with a short list of practical guides, a few interview candidates, and a clear decision to keep every explanation under three steps. This note shares the raw planning details, including the topics we dropped because they felt too technical for a first read.
Eduardo Rivera Silva
March 5, 2025
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After the planning session, we spent a week testing a simple password system with three families. The goal was to see what actually sticks when you are not a tech person. We learned that a paper backup sheet works better than any app for two of the three households, and that the biggest hurdle is remembering to update the sheet after changing a password. This post walks through the tradeoffs we observed, the small mistakes we made, and the adjustments we recommend before you try the same setup at home.
Andrea Lopez Rivera
February 26, 2025
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Three weeks after the first password trial, we checked back with the same families to see what had changed. One household switched to a password manager after all, another stuck with paper but added a reminder on the fridge, and the third decided to share a single family vault with a simple passphrase. This follow-up note covers the reasons behind each shift, the questions people asked when they got stuck, and the one habit that made the biggest difference across all three homes.