What Are Bitcoins?
Bitcoins a type of money that can be freely sent over the internet to anyone in the world, in any amount big or small, without any middleman (peer-to-peer). Unlike US Dollars, whose value is diminished …
How To Jailbreak Or Root Your Smartphone or Tablet
Why Jailbreak or “Root” Your Mobile Device? Jailbreaking is the act of overriding the software limitations on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Similarly, on an Android device, the terms “rooting” means giving yourself root …
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Tor: A Truly Anonymous Internet
If you want to browse the internet anonymously, and you are patient enough to wait about 2-3 seconds for web pages to load, check out Tor. Tor is a network that protects you by bouncing your communications …
The Major Advances In Password Cracking In The Past Five Years
Ars Technica has a fascinating article that describes the latest techniques hackers are using to crack passwords. From the article: A PC running a single AMD Radeon HD7970 GPU, for instance, can try on average …
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What Are The Most Popular and Least Popular PINs?
What the most popular and least popular numbers used for PINs? The answer is here. In this heatmap image above, the x-axis depicts the left two digits from [00] to [99] and the y-axis depicts …
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Wickr: Send Self-Destructing, Encrypted Messages
Wickr is a free app for the iPhone that allows you to send self-destructing, private instant messages to your friends. You can send text messages, video and audio messages. The whole transmission process is …
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Freedom Box: A Computer Built From The Ground Up With Privacy In Mind
The FreedomBox is basically a router loaded up with privacy-ensuring software. Once plugged into your home network, it will “protect your security, your privacy and your anonymity while you use the internet,” according to James …
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The Best Anonymous VPNs That Do Not Track You
A VPN or “virtual private network” is the easiest way to make your internet activities private. If you want to browse the web privately or share files privately, a VPN will encrypt and redirect your …
How to Buy Things Anonymously Using A Credit Card
The paid service Blur allows you to create disposable credit cards (U.S. only) Similar to Blur, Privacy.Com allows you to create disposable credit cards (U.S. only) Using Bitcoins is another good option — however be …
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Mesh Networking — A Better Internet Architecture
A Mesh Network (or Meshnet) is a type of network architecture where each computer is connected to neighboring computers, usually via Wi-Fi. Mesh Networks have a self-healing capability — they continue to work even if participating computers drop out. As a …
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