Privacy deep dives
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Last month, Google launched a new feature for Chrome called IP Protection that
makes it easier for the company to spy on you. No surprise, since this is
Google’s business model. But what’s concerning is that Google is marketing this
as a privacy feat
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WiFi is the technology that lets you wirelessly connect your computer or mobile
device to the internet. As with any connection on a network, there are ways for
hackers to intercept the signal to steal data or manipulate the transmission.
WPA3 is the
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Perfect forward secrecy (PFS) is a cryptographic feature of internet
communication protocols that ensures even if a session is compromised, past and
future sessions remain secure. It achieves this by using a new and unique
private encryption key for
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A zero-day is a software vulnerability or security flaw in a computer system
that its developers or vendors are unaware of. The term zero-day (also known as
0-day) refers to the fact that, since the developer or vendor is unaware of the
vulnerability
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IKEv2 is a VPN protocol used to secure VPN connections. Part of the IPSec
protocol suite, it is sometimes (and strictly speaking, more correctly) referred
to as IKEv2/IPSec.
A VPN protocol is a set of instructions or rules that determine how the
con
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“Amazon and third parties (including advertising and tracking services) collect
smart speaker interaction data. We find that Amazon processes voice data to
infer user interests and uses it to serve targeted ads on-platform (Echo
devices) as well as o
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WireGuard® is a new VPN protocol used to secure the connection between your
device and a VPN server.
Learn more about how VPNs work
WireGuard uses state-of-the-art cryptography to keep your connection secure and
is extremely lightweight. This make
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A VPN protocol is the set of instructions that your VPN app uses to set up,
secure, and govern your connection to a VPN server. OpenVPN is a VPN protocol
that has no known weaknesses and is effective at bypassing certain online
censorship methods. Op
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An internet service provider (ISP) is the company that connects you to the
internet, resolves domain names, routes internet traffic, and is responsible for
helping to maintain the network infrastructure that makes the internet
possible.
The term in
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China is infamous for its internet censorship program, widely known as the Great
Firewall of China (GFW).
In this article, we look at what the GFW is and how it prevents citizens of
mainland China from accessing the free and open internet.
* Wha
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Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a method of examining data packets that pass
through a network so that the traffic type can be identified. This information
can then be used to block unwanted traffic.
The technique is commonly used in firewalls, int