USMobile, Inc.'s Scrambl3
The special sauce in USMobile, Inc.'s Scrambl3, the mobile app that facilitates "the world's most private calls and messages", is a set of open-source components that create a top-secret-grade VPN,...
View ArticleOwn Your DNS Data
I honestly think most people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Even if they have some inkling along those lines, I still imagine many...
View ArticleJetico's BestCrypt Container Encryption for Linux
Cyber-attacks are now constant, threats to privacy are increasing, and more rigid regulations are looming worldwide. To help IT folks relax in the face of these challenges, Jetico updated its...
View ArticleThe Wire
In the US, there has been recent concern over ISPs turning over logs to the government. During the past few years, the idea of people snooping on our private data (by governments and others) really...
View ArticleEvery User a Neo
We can start the biggest revolution in 200 years. Or we can stay in the dreamland of business as usual. more>>
View ArticleInterview with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn on John Perry Barlow's Legacy
Cindy Cohn reflects on John Perry Barlow's greatest gifts as founder and leader. more>>
View ArticleHelp Us Cure Online Publishing of Its Addiction to Personal Data
Since the turn of the millennium, online publishing has turned into a vampire, sucking the blood of readers' personal data to feed the appetites of adtech: tracking-based advertising. Resisting that...
View ArticlePrivate Internet Access Goes Open Source, New Raspbian Image Available,...
News briefs for March 16, 2018. more>>
View ArticleVivaldi Browser Teams with DuckDuck Go to Enable Private Search, Memory Leak...
News briefs for March 23, 2018. more>>
View ArticleThe Linux Journal NSA Weekend Reading List: Tails and Tor
Tails is a live media Linux distro designed to boot into a highly secure desktop environment. Tor is a browser that prevents somebody watching your internet connection from learning what sites you...
View ArticleNew Firefox Add-on Prevents Facebook Tracking, the Linux Foundation Announces...
News briefs for March 27, 2018. more>>
View ArticleThinking and Working Outside the Platform
On the one hand, Facebook is on fire, and soon the whole surveillance economy will start burning down too (including publishers who depend on that economy no less than Facebook does). more>>
View ArticleLinux 4.16 Released, SLES SP3 for Raspberry Pi, Cloudflare Launches the...
News briefs for April 2, 2018. Linux 4.16 was released yesterday. Linus says "the take from final week of the 4.16 release looks a lot like rc7, in that about half of it is networking. If it wasn't for...
View ArticleRichard Stallman's Privacy Proposal, Valve's Commitment to Linux, New...
News briefs for April 4, 2018. more>>
View ArticleHow Wizards and Muggles Break Free from the Matrix
First we invented a world where everyone could be free. Then we helped build feudal castles on it, where everyone now lives. Now it's time to blow up those castles by giving everybody much better ways...
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