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Phone and computer privacy: hardening your operating system, taming app permissions, and the device IDs that give you away.

Android: Simple, open-source apps without ads, tracking and unnecessary permissions

I want to introduce you to a great Android developer team that released countless alternatives to apps that usually come for free but invade your privacy.

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Exodus for Android: Finds trackers embedded in all your apps

Today, I want to shed light on a fairly unknown but powerful Android app that helps you to locate trackers embedded in all your smartphone apps. It's calle

2022

AirDrop feature limited ahead of protests in China

Apple Inc. has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters to spread images to other i

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Enforce Privacy & Security Best-Practices on Windows and macOS: privacy.sexy

Today we present you another GitHub Gem: privacy.sexy is an open-source privacy tool to enforce security and privacy best-practices on Windows and macOS.

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Manufacturer Tools for Wiping HDD and SSD Drives

Always check your laptop BIOS/UEFI for native utilities first. Be sure to use the right wipe mode for the right disk. Wipe and Passes are for HDD drives. T

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Cell Phones are not Devices that Aid in Being Anonymous

It isn’t so obvious why after we discussed earlier about the strong encryption on a newer iPhone, they might not be considered a tool for anonymity but it

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Secure Operating Systems: Tails, Debian and Qubes OS

Before we dive to heavily into the tactics that are going to keep an individual at this level secure from a big name adversary, we have to consider the ope

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Virtualization: Three big reasons how Virtual Machines can help to improve your privacy

Basically, it is like the Inception movie with computers. You have emulated software computers called Virtual Machines running on a physical computer. And

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Warning about smartphones and smart devices

When conducting sensitive activities, remember that:

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