Published Apr 30, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek, Joe has been writing about technology since starting his career in 2018 at KnowTechie. He's covered everything from Apple to apps and crowdfunding and loves getting to the bottom of complicated topics. In that time, he's also written for SlashGear and numerous corporate clients before finding his home at XDA in the spring of 2023. He was the kid who took apart every toy to see how it worked, even if it didn't exactly go back together afterward. That's given him a solid background for explaining how complex systems work together, and he promises he's gotten better at the putting things back together stage since then. Being connected to the internet has always been slightly dangerous, but in the age of automated scanning and AI, it's never been more so. Network security is something many assume their router is going to handle on its own, if they think about it at all, but the myth of being too small to be worth targeting is long over.…