Blog Table of Contents
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