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VPNs, Tor, DNS, and Wi-Fi: how to lock down the way you connect and stay anonymous on the network.

WireGuard vs. OpenVPN: Which VPN protocol is better?

When you connect to a VPN, your data travels through a secure encrypted tunnel to a VPN server, where you’re assigned an IP address. A VPN protocol refers

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Proxy vs. VPN: Which One Should You Choose?

Virtual private networks VPN and proxy servers are both great tools for protecting your identity online. People tend to think of them as doing the same thi

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Sentinel dVPN Guide: New, Exciting and Decentralized. Everything Explained

A plain-language explainer of decentralized VPNs (dVPNs): how they route traffic through community-run nodes and differ from a traditional centralized VPN.

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VPN vs Tor: Which one is right for you?

Online security and privacy are becoming increasingly important. Therefore, it isn’t surprising to see many people turning to internet security tools for m

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Using Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and Tor Together

The issue once you get to need such a level of security that you find yourself categorized in a paper like this is you are really the only person who knows

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

There are very few locations where I actually trust connecting directly to the Internet. I don’t even do things like online banking or logging into my Bitw

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A Guide for Firewalling Your Network Connections: Windows, MacOS and Linux

One of the other ways one can secure their connection to the Internet is to make sure that all incoming and outgoing connections are being passed through a

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Gaining Anonymity: The Tor Network & Tor Browser Bundle

My first step in looking at anonymity is making use of the TBB and the Tor network. Tor was released in 2002 and has since evolved into a tool that is used

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How your anonymized Tor/VPN traffic can be used to track you down

Tor and VPNs are not silver bullets. Many advanced techniques have been developed and studied to de-anonymize encrypted Tor traffic over the years. Most of

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Man-in-the-middle attacks with malicious & rogue Wi-Fi access points

These have been used at least since 2008 using an attack called “Jasager” and can be done by anyone using self-built tools or using commercially available

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Accessing the internet as safely as possible when Tor and VPNs are not an option

There might be worst-case situations where using Tor and VPNs are not possible due to extensive active censorship or blocking.

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Finding safe places with decent public Wi-Fi for better privacy

You need to find safe places where you will be able to do your sensitive activities using some publicly accessible Wi-Fi without any account/ID registratio

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Installing and using desktop Tor Browser

This is valid for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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Using long-range Antenna to connect to Public Wi-Fis from a safe distance

It is possible to access/connect to remote distant Public Wi-Fis from a distance using a cheap directional Antenna that looks like this.

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Using Tor bridges in hostile environments

In some environments, your ISPs might be trying to prevent you from accessing Tor. Or accessing Tor openly might be a safety risk.

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