We have a strong focus on helping people stay anonymous or (at least) increasing their online privacy. The primary tool for this will always be a reliable VPN provider. The additional step that you can… Read More »Choose the Best Anonymous Browser: Stay Safe Online
If you haven’t figured this out yet, the orange-tinted Congress of the United States doesn’t have the needs of common citizens in mind. The most obvious of this is the current efforts to strip the… Read More »Congress to Strip FCC Regulations on Online Privacy: Protect your Browsing!
Do you need to get The Pirate Bay unblocked to download some of the latest movies? That is something that more and more people are finding themselves needing to do. People seem to need to… Read More »Get The Pirate Bay Unblocked: Do This If The Pirating Site’s Blocked
The war on the free distribution of information, and entertainment, continues as SoundCloud’s new blocking features continue to frustrate music fans. Not only is the free music platform no longer is so free, but it is now locking out free music to people from outside of the United States.
Getting around to SoundCloud’s new Geo blocking feature can unlock tracks which are in preview, or out right blocked entirely. Let’s learn about them now.
Read More »How to Defeat SoundCloud’s New Geoblocking Feature
Most of the time, hackers aren’t hacking just for the LOLz. Only sometimes. The rest of the time they are hacking into computers and servers for specific information which they can take. This information can be used for a number of things, one of the biggest being a profile that the data in your browser tells about you: This is browser fingerprinting.
Why is this ‘profile’, or online fingerprint, important? Let’s find out before hackers do, and let’s look at protecting this fingerprint as well so that you can be safer.
Read More »How to Avoid Browser Fingerprinting, Get More Online Privacy
Let’s face it: Your whole life is on your smartphone, isn’t it? With more of us putting more and more of ourselves in apps, it’s well past time we all started looking at using encryption to our advantage. One way you can do this is using a VPN like IPVanish, which has a great app for Android, whenever you connect to public WiFi with your smartphone.
Another useful form of encryption comes from app lock tools like the 10 we’ll look at in this article. They can protect you, with encryption, if someone does manage to get into your smartphone via digital or physical means.
Read More »The Best App Lock Tools for Android: 7 Reviewed and Rated
Learning the facts of online privacy, online security, and anonymity online is important. There’s a lot of marketing speak out there, and you deserve to know the truth behind the spin. How much privacy do you get from a
Read More »How Much Online Privacy do I Get from a VPN: Myths vs. Facts
A recent survey by the NTIA, under the US Department of Commerce, clearly shows that people in the US have serious online security trust issues. The report was compiled to see how people felt about online security, and it isn’t anywhere near as good as it should.
Looking at the data, I can’t help but wonder how many people are aware of the fact that they can personally improve their online security by using some encryption from a
Read More »Online Security Trust is Down: US Government Report
Google users has been having a tough time in China since Google officially pulled out of China in 2010. Since then, access to Google search, and other Google services, has been sketchy at best. It now appears as if Gmail is blocked in China.
UPDATE: Read my most current post on the situation in China right now. The information below is still valid when you read the other post as well.
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Many people falsely believed that the only threat they face online is a hacker or a computer virus. This turned out to not be the case as governments the world over have been found to be using the Internet to track people’s information and do mass surveillance. You can be sure that they’re following the activity of online activists, especially in more restrictive countries. Do not fool yourself, these restrictive countries can include both the UK and the USA.
Even the most common of online activist activities can be tracked and used against you if you don’t protect yourself. This is where a
Read More »How do Online Activists Benefit From a VPN?