The standard we hold ourselves to
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Viper Tech in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
Standards
How Viper Tech chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Viper Tech in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
A minority of outbound links are commercial. None of them have ever changed a sentence that was written before the link existed.
If a partner asks us to remove a criticism, the answer is no, and the request itself may end up mentioned in a future article.
Each piece is signed, and each signature is a link to everything else that person has written. A house byline would let a weak article hide; a real name does not.
Anika Rao, Mobile and smart home writer. Anika writes about phones and connected devices for ordinary users, focused on what actually improves daily life.
Gideon Marsh, Buying and value writer. Gideon helps readers buy tech wisely, cutting through marketing to what is worth paying for and what is not.
Tomasz Kaminski, Computers and security writer. Tomasz covers computers and device security in plain language, aimed at people who just want their tech to work safely.
The date on an article is the date it was published. When a change alters the advice, we update the modified date and say what changed. Cosmetic edits do not reset the date, because pretending a page is fresher than it is helps nobody.
We keep a running list of questions readers send us, plus questions we had ourselves and could not find a straight answer to. A topic gets written when it appears on that list more than once.
A draft goes through four hands worth of work. The writer separates what they know from what they assume. The assumptions are either checked against something nameable or deleted. What is left gets written up. Then a second person reads it looking only for overconfidence, which is the failure this subject invites most.
Corrections go to info@vipertechcr.online. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.