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How to make a small server for your home
Servers are just computers without screens and keyboards, but they can be relatively cheap to buy, compared with the costs of renting a Virtual Private Server (VPS) in the cloud. Storage can quickly b...
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Girl Scouts are our next wave of cybersecurity experts
Do you know what badges Girl Scouts are collecting these days? It’s not just Hiker, Making Friends, and Cookie CEO anymore. With a strong focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), ...
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PGP is still pretty good for privacy
Many privacy advocates use PGP (GNU Privacy Guard/GPG in its open source form) to encrypt, sign, and verify data and text of all sorts. PGP is a relatively well audited and trusted privacy and securit...
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Privacy in America vs. Europe: Here’s how the EU does data different
This post was originally published on May 15, 2018. Back in 2017, The Economist that prophetically pegged personal data as the world’s greatest resource, but it’s only in the past few months that ...
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Facebook has a better memory of you than you do—find out what it knows
NOTE: This post was originally published on May 4, 2018 In light of Facebook’s biggest scandal to date, many people are starting to take privacy more seriously. Unfortunately, it may be too late ...
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What makes a cryptocurrency Bitcoin?
According to listings on coinmarketcap.com, there are now six major cryptocurrencies that all claim to be Bitcoin, and more are in the works. In addition to Bitcoin Cash (which, with over US$20 billio...
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5 fashion items you’ll need to fight a surveillance state
In a previous post, we looked at how to be incognito in the real world. Today, let’s dive deeper into the subject... and how to look fabulous while doing it! When you’re out and about, the most di...
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Looking for the best tech podcasts? Here are ExpressVPN's favorites
Getting onto a good podcast is like discovering a delicious new restaurant, a killer local bar, or an engrossing TV series. Filled with glee, you want more of that sweet, sweet nectar. But finding a g...
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Upset about Facebook? You should be more worried about your ISP
Sure, Facebook’s data policies are bad, but they pale in comparison to your ISP’s (internet service provider). With Congress recently passing legislation that allows telecom companies like Comcast...
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Did the internet fail to deliver on its early promises?
With its many predecessors and common interchangeable terminology, it’s hard to pin the internet’s birth date precisely, though it’s fair to say that in the mid-1990s the internet began to enter...
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