The Intersection of Privacy and Cybersecurity

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This post was originally published on 29 JAN 2022. It has since been updated and revised.

DNS enables your devices to connect to the internet as we currently know it, translating the human-readable domain name to a machine-readable IP address.

However, what happens if your resolver is either i...

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The importance of metadata to user privacy is simply under emphasized.

Metadata can tell the whole story without ever reading the message contents; with files, Metadata can reveal additional and potentially sensitive information in addition to whatever is contained inside a file.

People break u...

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This post was originally published on 17 FEB 2021. It has since been updated and revised.

This is a guide for tweaking the Firefox browser for enhanced online privacy. We explore the "normal" and the "advanced" tweaks here.

This guide is intended for desktop users across all platforms: Wind...

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While convenient, many of the most well-known and popular cloud storage providers have direct access to your files - in some cases, third-parties may have access to your files as well.

Encrypted cloud storage providers respect user privacy and use zero knowledge end-to-end encryption implementatio...

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