# Blog — Transmission Logs

> Decrypted intel on privacy, zero-days, and secure architecture, covering kill switches, Tor routing, and filesystem encryption behind Guardian Pro.

Source: https://shadephone.com/blog

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## Articles

### [The Death of the Passcode: Why Kill Switches Matter](https://shadephone.com/blog/hardware-kill-switches)

- Date: 2026-03-20
- Read time: 5 min read
- Author: Gibraltar Guardian Intelligence
- Tags: kill switch, threat model, device security

Software toggles can be bypassed by state-level malware. We explain the honest spectrum from hardware cut-offs to software wipes — and why Guardian Pro ships a software emergency wipe rather than overselling a circuit-cutting switch.

### [Tor by Default: Routing Every Packet Through the Network](https://shadephone.com/blog/tor-by-default)

- Date: 2026-03-15
- Read time: 8 min read
- Author: Gibraltar Guardian Intelligence
- Tags: tor, anonymity, networking

Why Guardian Pro routes standard IP traffic through Tor by default at the distribution level, what that does and does not hide, and how default-on anonymity changes a device's network fingerprint.

### [Erasing the Trace: The Mechanics of the Emergency Wipe](https://shadephone.com/blog/duress-pin-mechanics)

- Date: 2026-03-01
- Read time: 12 min read
- Author: Gibraltar Guardian Intelligence
- Tags: encryption, emergency wipe, data destruction

A deep dive into software-level filesystem encryption and the emergency wipe: how key destruction renders data unrecoverable, what re-provisioning looks like, and where the honest limits of a software wipe sit.