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The Best VPN in 2024

September 15, 2024

The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024

August 4, 2024

Best Voice-over-IP Providers in 2024

July 21, 2024

Major Changes To The Website

July 5, 2024

A Rising Enforcement of Censorship

June 22, 2024

The Best Email Aliasing Providers in 2024

June 2, 2024

Is Privacy Worth It?

May 18, 2024

Protecting Your Privacy at a Protest in 2024

May 11, 2024

The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024

May 4, 2024

The Hidden Benefits of Digital Minimalism

April 27, 2024

Do You Even Need Antivirus Software in 2024?

April 20, 2024

Defending Your Dollars: Essential Tips for Financial Security and Identity Protection

April 13, 2024

Should You Pay For An Identity Theft Protection Service?

April 6, 2024

The Best Private & Secure Cloud Storage in 2024

March 31, 2024

Big Updates From The New Oil

March 23, 2024

The Greatest Enemy of Privacy

March 16, 2024

The Best Password Managers in 2024

March 2, 2024

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Insecurity

February 25, 2024

Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All

February 18, 2024

Tips for Online Dating Privacy and Safety in 2024

February 10, 2024

Safeguarding Your Online Presence: Tips for Safer Internet Day

February 3, 2024

Data Privacy Day 2024

January 27, 2024

Changes Aren’t Permanent, But Change Is

January 21, 2024

Easy Ways to Improve Your Privacy & Security in 2024

January 14, 2024

Transparency Report: 2023

January 6, 2024

Safe Shopping: 2023 Edition

November 5, 2023

The New Oil Hidden Service Now Available!

October 29, 2023

Bypassing Most (But Not All) Paywalls

October 14, 2023

Making Privacy Tools Worth It Part 2: The Developers (& Community)

October 8, 2023

Making Privacy Tools Worth It Part 1: The End User

October 1, 2023

2023 Proton VPN Review

September 24, 2023

The Best Password Managers in 2023

September 9, 2023

2023 Review: Threema

September 3, 2023

Parenting & Privacy with The Privacy Dad

August 6, 2023

2023 Review: AnonAddy & SimpleLogin

July 24, 2023

Finding Balance

July 16, 2023

Prime Day is This Week. Here’s Why You Should Stop Using Amazon

July 8, 2023

Death of a Server

June 4, 2023

2023 Review: Mullvad VPN

May 30, 2023

Revisiting Financial Privacy

May 22, 2023

2023 Review: Cloud Storage Solutions

May 16, 2023

A Long Overdue Update

May 7, 2023

2023 Review: The Safing Private Network (SPN)

April 1, 2023

2023 Review: Skiff Mail

March 19, 2023

The (Not So) Scary Truth Behind Intel ME

March 4, 2023

Book Review: Stuff They Don’t Want You To know by Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, & Noel Brown

February 19, 2023

Custom Domains 101

February 5, 2023

2023 Review: IVPN

January 29, 2023

New Year’s Checkup

January 22, 2023

2022 Review: Aegis & Raivo

January 14, 2023

Transparency Report: 2022 (And Goals for 2023)

January 7, 2023

Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

January 1, 2023

Twitter May Be Hacked and Nobody’s Talking About It

December 13, 2022

The Sandbox is a Lie

December 4, 2022

Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

November 26, 2022

Safe Shopping: 2022 Edition

November 20, 2022

2022 Review: Wire

October 22, 2022

How to Read a Privacy Policy

October 17, 2022

2022 Review: MySudo

October 9, 2022

The Rising Standard of Tech Literacy

October 3, 2022

2022 Review: ProtonVPN

September 26, 2022

2022 Review: Bitwarden & KeePass

September 10, 2022

Your Loved Ones Are Betraying Your Privacy

September 3, 2022

2022 Review: Threema

August 27, 2022

The New Oil Has a Merch Store Now

August 6, 2022

2022 Review: ProtonMail

July 16, 2022

Prime Day is This Week. Here’s Why You Should Stop Using Amazon

July 10, 2022

2022 Review: Signal Messenger

July 3, 2022

Let’s Talk About Roe v Wade

June 25, 2022

Upping Your Privacy Game

June 18, 2022

Daily Driving the Pinephone Pro

June 4, 2022

2022 Review: Mullvad VPN

May 29, 2022

Disinformation Part 2

May 23, 2022

Disinformation, Part 1

May 7, 2022

CTemplar is Dead (AKA Lessons About Email Sovereignty)

April 30, 2022

2022 Review: Session

April 23, 2022

Haven: “Self-Host a Private Blog Instead of Using Facebook”

April 16, 2022

2022 Review: AnonAddy & SimpleLogin

April 9, 2022

Why to Care About Privacy After Years of Sharing Data

April 3, 2022

One Week of LineageOS

March 27, 2022

How to Make People Care About Privacy

March 19, 2022

2022 Review: CTemplar

March 12, 2022

Physical Home Security

March 5, 2022

Valentine’s Day Q&A

February 20, 2022

Ain’t Nobody Perfect

February 9, 2022

Relationships 101

February 5, 2022

Data Privacy Week/Day Spotlight: Overrated Tools

January 28, 2022

Data Privacy Week Spotlight: Disinformation

January 27, 2022

Data Privacy Week Spotlight: Backups

January 26, 2022

Data Privacy Week Spotlight: Mobile Habits

January 25, 2022

Data Privacy Week Spotlight: Settings

January 24, 2022

2022 Review: IVPN

January 22, 2022

Reducing Streaming Services’ Tracking

January 15, 2022

Transparency Report: 2021 (And Goals for 2022)

January 1, 2022

Some Christmas Gift Tips

December 25, 2021

I Doxxed Myself This Week

December 11, 2021

Bad Gift Ideas for Privacy

December 5, 2021

Privacy Can Protect You From Manipulation

November 27, 2021

Safe Shopping: 2021 Edition

November 20, 2021

2021 Review: XMPP

November 13, 2021

Types of Security

October 30, 2021

2021 Review: Tutanota

October 23, 2021

Network Security

October 16, 2021

2021 Review: Wire Messenger

October 9, 2021

4 Cybersecurity Basics

October 2, 2021

2021 Review: ProtonVPN

September 25, 2021

When to Switch Services

September 18, 2021

Backup Solutions Roundup

September 11, 2021

Things I Wish I’d Known/Done Differently

September 5, 2021

Recognizing Progress (or, An Appreciation Post for Newbies)

August 21, 2021

2021 Review: MySudo

August 14, 2021

Privacy is Not Political

August 7, 2021

Sanity Check: People Don’t Spy Just Because

July 31, 2021

iOS 2FA Apps Review 2021 (or Raivo OTP: The Only iOS 2FA App Worth Recommending in 2021)

July 24, 2021

Critical Thinking 101

July 17, 2021

The Best Password Manager in 2021

July 10, 2021

Staying Informed Without Big Tech

July 3, 2021

I Was Supposed to Review Mailbox.org This Week.

June 26, 2021

Cool Privacy & Security Toys for Father’s Day

June 19, 2021

2021 Review: Signal

June 12, 2021

Prime Day is This Month. Here’s Why You Should Stop Using Amazon

June 5, 2021

What REALLY is the Best iOS Browser? Addendum: SnowHaze

May 29, 2021

2021 Review: AnonAddy & SimpleLogin

May 22, 2021

What REALLY is the Best iOS Browser?

May 15, 2021

Mom’s Guide to Online Child Safety

May 8, 2021

The Expectation of Stalking

May 1, 2021

The Privacy Paradox

April 18, 2021

Movie Review: Coded Bias

April 10, 2021

An Important Update About Credit Freezes in the United States

April 3, 2021

The Peripheral Benefits of Privacy

March 27, 2021

Financial Privacy

March 20, 2021

Review: Mullvad VPN 2021 - Insultingly Easy

February 27, 2021

Lessons in Disasters and Redundancy

February 20, 2021

How to Handle Old Accounts

February 13, 2021

Love is in the Air (via WiFi and Dating Apps)

February 6, 2021

Burnout

January 30, 2021

Today is Data Privacy Day. Here’s Another List

January 28, 2021

I Locked Myself Out of My SIM Card This Weekend

January 23, 2021

Privacy & Security 101: Social Media

January 16, 2021

What’s the Buzz About Bitcoin?

January 9, 2021

2020 Recap/2021 Plans

January 2, 2021

How to Fail at Privacy & Security

December 26, 2020

Privacy-Respecting Video Chat Apps for the Holidays

December 19, 2020

“There’s A Problem With Your Package From Amazon”

December 12, 2020

“Open Source” Does Not Always Equal “Safe”

December 5, 2020

Five Privacy Respecting Gift Ideas

November 28, 2020

Does the Country a Service is Headquartered in Matter?

November 21, 2020

Safe Shopping: 2020 Edition

November 14, 2020

A Detour into Diet Apps

November 7, 2020

Should You Use Biometric Locks on Your Devices?

October 31, 2020

How I’ve Convinced People Around Me to Care About Privacy

October 24, 2020

Interacting With Non-Privacy People

October 17, 2020

School-Issued Chromebooks and Privacy

October 10, 2020

Back to the Basics

October 3, 2020

Avoiding Robocalls

September 26, 2020

Movie Review: The Social Dilemma

September 19, 2020

Book Review: Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier

September 12, 2020

Sanity Check: Threat Modeling

September 5, 2020

Book Review: Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear (2nd Edition) by Michael Bazzell

August 29, 2020

The Privacy of DNA

August 22, 2020

The Self-Destructive Quest for Perfection

August 15, 2020

Privacy and Voting

August 8, 2020

Privacy and Death

August 1, 2020

Privacy & Security 101: Compartmentalization

July 25, 2020

Privacy & Security 101: Layering Your Strategies

July 18, 2020

I Lost My Debit Card Last Weekend

July 11, 2020

An Open Letter to Congresspeople Regarding S. 4051 (Lindsey Graham’s Bill to Outlaw End-to-End Encryption)

June 27, 2020

Why You Don’t Need a VPN

June 13, 2020

Case Study: Online Dating, Scams, and Why Privacy is Not a Reactive Issue

June 7, 2020

Protesting

May 30, 2020

Book Review: The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

May 23, 2020

A Plea for Patience From a Privacy Enthusiast

May 16, 2020

Privacy in the Workplace

May 10, 2020

Decentralized Communication: The Way of the Future

May 3, 2020

Why You (Yes You, Reading This) Need to Take the Lead in Privacy & Security

April 26, 2020

Website Overhaul

April 12, 2020

The EARN IT Act

March 21, 2020

Let’s (Not) Talk About COVID-19

March 14, 2020

One Size Does Not Fit All

March 7, 2020

The Question of Trust

February 29, 2020

Your Phone is Not Your Friend

February 9, 2020

Tracking Links

January 12, 2020

Looking Ahead

January 4, 2020

Why Your Individual Privacy Matters for the Wider Population

December 28, 2019

The Privacy Myth: Binary vs Spectrum

December 22, 2019

Safe Shopping

December 2, 2019

Limiting Social Media

November 16, 2019

The Case for Linux

September 2, 2019

The Rise of Ransomware

August 19, 2019

Threat Modeling

December 24, 2018