Is Elon Musk Going to Spy on Starlink Users? What Can They Harvest?
Starlink changed its Terms of Service to allow it to train on customer data. What does that really mean?
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Think You Need a VPN Subscription? Here’s Why You’re Dead Wrong
VPN has become so mainstream a lot of people don't even known what "VPN" stands for, but know they need one. From streamers looking to bypass regional restrictions to security-conscious netizens evading trackers to people looking to get around the recent craze of laws requiring registration to view porn, everyone is using VPNs in 2025. The market is saturated with commercial VPN providers promising anonymity, speed, and security. So if you need a VPN, it's just a question of searching for the right coupons to sign up, right? Not so fast.
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How Private is Your Hosted Data, Really? Even That Encrypted Stuff...
If you upload something to your VPS, can the provider see it? What about a dedicated server? Let's take a look...you're probably not going to like the answer.
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A VPN Isn’t the Right Solution for Anonymity – You Need To Be Using Tor, Here’s Why…
A VPN encrypts your traffic, but, at the cost of the VPN provider being in the middle of everything. That provider could still see everything. Sure, your ISP can now no longer see your traffic, but yo...
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How to Watch Your Neighbor's Every Move with $100 in Cheap Wi-Fi Routers
What if $100 worth of cheap Wi-Fi routers could scan inside your neighbor's house and paint a real-time picture of everything he does? That's what a new paper claims can be done.
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Did You Know You Can Pay to See Someone Else's Facebook Account?
For years I've read comments online by people who don't trust cloud providers because the government will use them to spy on them or these cloud companies are building massive behavioral databases. The reality is that it's the bored junior sysadmin or the perverted graveyard shift content moderator who are going to rifle through your files. Case in point this week: Facebook.
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Twitter: Are You Vulnerable?
Everyone who has anything to do with leading Twitter's security, privacy, and compliance departments has fled the company in mass resignations. Twitter is headed for a security cliff. How vulnerable are you?
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Google Still Addicted to Third Party Cookies, May Need to Go to Rehab
Everyone is making too much money using third party cookies so they're not going away "yet". You may recall that back in January of 2020, Google announced that they were going to remove third party co...
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Concerns Voiced Over Sweeping New India Surveillance Law. Legit?
India's Criminal Procedure Identification bill passed in parliament last week and is raising concerns about government snooping. The law requires those arrested or detained to provide biometric data (...
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Is the End of Third Party Cookies Finally Near?
Sometime in "late 2023", Google will finally phase out third party cookie for Chrome. Finally. Firefox has been blocking them since 2019, and Safari does as well. No one uses Edge, which leaves Chro...
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Will Germans Put You in Prison if You Don't Self-Host Your Own Fonts? Probably Not.
The growing tide of marijuana legalization seems to have an effect in the Munich legal system, as a group of jurists there who were clearly high out of their minds when they handed down a death senten...
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Privacy, Canaries, Crypto, and Backpacking: Interview with Curtis of IncogNET!
Our interview series has featured a wide opinions and views. Today's interview is no exception - and it's a real treat to read! Curtis from IncogNET joins us to discuss privacy, free speech hosting,...
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Apple Relents on New Surveillance Measures
Apple announced today that it is delaying rollout of its controversial new surveillance technology that sought to identify child pornography. They've updated their previous press release with this dis...
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Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches
Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing. Under...
Read MoreHow to Run a TOR Node on Your VPS
TOR (The Onion Router) is FOSS software to allow onion routing. It is designed to defeat traffic analysis. In this tutorial, we'll talk about the three kinds of routers you can run to contribute to th...
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Using a Ubuntu/Debian VPS to Establish Anonymous SSH sessions with TOR
Perhaps you've wanted to set up a virtual private server (VPS) to anonymize HTTP traffic on the TOR network. OpenSSH would be the first solution that admins would turn to, given the fact that OpenSSH...
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