Secure email providers provide enhanced security and privacy over more common, not-so-privacy friendly email providers. Secure email providers are also just as user friendly as their non-privacy-friendly counterparts. Given the decentralized nature of email, users are highly encouraged trying secure email providers for themselves and, where possible, migrate most (if ... Read More

This post was originally published on 29 JAN 2022. It has since been updated and revised. DNS enables your devices to connect to the internet as we currently know it, translating the human-readable domain name to a machine-readable IP address. However, what happens if your resolver is either insecure and/or ... Read More

Update/Revision of this post originally published on 1 DEC 2021. Most people have a smartphone and the odds are this smartphone is either an iPhone (iOS) or some flavor of Google Android. Unfortunately, in a myriad of ways, neither are exactly the best for security or privacy. Between Google-flavored Android ... Read More

This post was originally published on 1 SEP 2022; it has since been updated and revised. One of the biggest sticking points commonly brought up in the privacy community is the price of privacy. As it generally goes, especially on the internet as a whole, free is not free – ... Read More

This post was originally published on 31 JAN 2021; it has since been updated and revised. WebRTC can prove useful when users need to use it, which is most commonly during peer-to-peer (P2P) calling in the browser. However, a critical flaw yet to be directly and adequately addressed across all ... Read More

Update/Revision of the post originally published on 17 FEB 2021. This is a guide for tweaking the Firefox browser for enhanced online privacy. We explore the "normal" and the "advanced" tweaks here. This guide is intended for desktop users across all platforms: Windows, macOS, and Linux. This guide is based ... Read More

WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for its messaging platform by default, but the platform itself is owned by Meta, known for its privacy-related scandals and appears to engage in an outstanding amount of data collection. WhatsApp is also the most popular messaging app with over 2 billion users worldwide who transmit ... Read More

Free email has been around for... decades. However, the trust cost of these free email services comes in the form of your data - you give up your privacy in exchange for the service. Many of these platforms use your email account to profile you for advertisers and data brokers ... Read More