The
Multiverse
School

One-Day Intensive

Consumer Device Rescue and Defense

10.28.26 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT 2 hours in one focused day

The drawer of old phones still signed into your accounts, the laptop that's never been backed up, and whether your disk is actually encrypted. We run a real diagnostic tool and fix what it finds.

with Liz Howard

Part of the Home Cyber Defense track, 5 classes, take them in any order.

See the whole track
  1. Consumer Device Rescue and Defense You're here
  2. Scam and Fraud Home Defense 18 Nov
  3. Home Network Defense Date TBA
  4. Digital Identity Defense Date TBA
  5. Build a Cyberdeck Date TBA

Overview

Everyone has the drawer: old phones, an old laptop, a tablet nobody uses, all still signed into live accounts, some still approving login prompts. And most people can't say whether their laptop is encrypted, whether updates are really installing, or what has permission to use the microphone. So we stop guessing. We install Multiverse Device Rescue, an open-source diagnostic toolkit that runs locally and read-only, and let it tell you the truth about your machine. Then we fix what it found. The report never leaves your computer; it's read in your browser and thrown away. You leave with proof rather than a checkbox you ticked, and with that drawer finally dealt with: wiped, de-registered, and removed from your accounts' trusted-device lists. Can't install it? You do the same checklist by hand and reach the same place.

What You'll Master

  • Whether your disk is really encrypted, and updates really automatic, confirmed, not assumed
  • What has access to your microphone, camera and location
  • Which browser extensions are reading every page you visit, including your bank
  • The remote-access doors most people have open without knowing
  • Wiping old phones and laptops so they stop approving your logins

Where This Class Leads

What you leave able to do

  • follow a device hardening checklist
  • locate a substitute part when the named one is unavailable
  • repurpose a retired device into a working server
  • migrate your work off a subscription without losing it
  • design a household security posture for people who did not choose it

How you show it. A posture in place across at least three people who did not set it up, and one protection that held when someone did the wrong thing anyway.

Join Us

One-Day Intensive

Suggested $100 pay what you can
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Minimum price, doesn't fund a scholarship seat

The minimum is $100, it keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Pay What You Can

Secure payment via Stripe

One-Day Intensive

Suggested $400 pay what you can
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Sponsors 3 scholarship seats for someone else

The minimum is $300, it keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Pay What You Can

Secure payment via Stripe

One-Day Intensive

Suggested $750 pay what you can
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Sponsors 6.5 scholarship seats for someone else

The minimum is $750, it keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Pay What You Can

Secure payment via Stripe

Instructor

Liz Howard

Liz Howard

Future Infinitive☸️ (Liz Howard) Founder & Professor, The Multiverse School Computer Science · AI · Cybersecurity Formerly faculty, Cal State Monterey Bay Co-founder, Hipcamp Previously built Hackbright Academy, Girl Develop It, Galvanize, Enki

Want to schedule this class for your team?

Contact us: liz@themultiverse.school