Privacy basics

A guest network is a separate WiFi network within your home or office network designed specifically for your guests or customers to use.  Although run…

Before WiFi, you had to connect your internet-capable device to a router via an Ethernet cable. The router then connected to a modem, which connected…

Tor Browser is a privacy-focused browser that lets you navigate the internet without anyone monitoring your activity or identifying you. It relies on the Tor…

Every device that connects to a network does so through a network interface controller (NIC). Devices that can connect to multiple networks will have a…

Hackers are always looking for ways to break through the security systems that defend your devices and data from criminals. From web browsers to operating…

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an open-source, decentralized anonymizing network built on similar principles to Tor. Unlike Tor, which was primarily designed to allow…

Internet cookies, often called website cookies, computer cookies, or just cookies, are small text files that websites store on your computer or device when you…

Geoblocking is the practice of restricting or blocking internet content based on your geographic location. This usually means restricting content based on which country you…

In this article, we discuss DNS — what it is, how it works, and how it impacts online privacy and censorship. All devices that connect…