Everything is connected. Why this creates a problem you did not know existed.
We’ve been handed total dependence on systems nobody quite takes responsibility for. Here’s what that means for you.
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You're Not Nuts
What's actually happening when your emails go missing, your calls don't connect, and nobody believes you
For the private person
They Never Took a Penny
How the most devastating attacks on your business leave no evidence, no case number, and everyone wondering if you imagined it
For the business owner
They Might Not Be Paranoid
A framework for mental health professionals assessing patients who report surveillance, communication interference, and identity compromise
For clinicians & legal professionals
Telecommunications Security & Digital Infrastructure
The systems beneath your phone number, your messages, and your authentication. What is possible that you have not been told. What has been known and not fixed.
App Security, Data Tracking & the Surveillance Economy
What apps collect, what they transmit, and what the terms you agreed to actually permit. Services built on your data that you cannot opt out of without losing access entirely.
Devices & Supply Chains
What arrives on a device before you turn it on. The configurations you never agreed to. The baseline state of a new device that most people never examine.
Cybersecurity Regulation & the Accountability Gap
The regulatory frameworks that lag years behind the risks they govern. The standards that exist on paper and are never enforced. The liability that falls on users instead of the systems that failed them.
Insurance & Workers Compensation
The gap between what policy says and what practice does. Claims processes that can result in prolonged claimant exhaustion. The institutional behavior that is legal but rarely examined closely.
Consumer Financial Systems & Digital Identity Infrastructure
Credit infrastructure. Banking authentication. The identity records that exist in systems you have never touched and cannot monitor. What happens when those records are wrong.
Institutional Non-Response
How support systems process complaints without resolving them. Why the answer is always normal. What exists in the layer that answer cannot see.
The Clinical Gap
What happens when a patient's experience is accurate but the clinical framework used to assess it was built before the relevant infrastructure existed.
And what comes next.
The topics above are not exhaustive. Industries that are not structured around user visibility are not standing still. Neither are we.
About Spiky Media
Spiky Media is a media company and publishing house covering technology and its real-life consequences in plain language.
We publish reporting, essays, and books on the systems people are expected to trust but are rarely allowed to inspect: internet security, phone security, app and website security, online accounts, telecommunications, authentication, identity, customer data, support systems, and accountability.
Our work begins where the public explanation usually stops. We ask who built the system, who controls the process, what users are forced to depend on, and who is responsible when something goes wrong.
Spiky Media is independent. We are not affiliated with any platform, regulator, or government body.
The ongoing publication.
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What we publish
- Content grounded in documented, verifiable fact
- Clear distinction between observation and interpretation
- Transparency about what is not known
- Questions held open long enough to examine properly
- The structures that are rarely examined closely
What we do not publish
- Speculation presented as fact
- Claims that exceed what the available evidence supports
- Sensationalism
- Content designed to generate fear rather than understanding
- Anything we cannot support