Operating Systems – GreyCoder https://greycoder.com Private Apps & Services Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:23:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mljtx8ukspu9.i.optimole.com/w:32/h:32/q:mauto/f:best/dpr:2/https://greycoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-greycoder-logo-circular-2-scaled-1.jpg Operating Systems – GreyCoder https://greycoder.com 32 32 A List Of Advanced iPhone Settings To Increase Your Privacy and Security https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-iphone-settings-to-increase-your-privacy-and-security/ https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-iphone-settings-to-increase-your-privacy-and-security/#respond Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:50:23 +0000 https://greycoder.com/?p=32724 Here are some advanced settings to secure your iPhone.

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]]> https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-iphone-settings-to-increase-your-privacy-and-security/feed/ 0 How To: Set Up a Tails Virtual Machine for Private Browsing https://greycoder.com/how-to-set-up-a-virtual-machine-for-private-browsing/ https://greycoder.com/how-to-set-up-a-virtual-machine-for-private-browsing/#respond Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:34:40 +0000 http://greycoder.com/?p=11254 If you want the privacy advantages of using a secure Linux-based OS like Tails but don’t want to use Linux all the time, an easy (and free) solution is to run Tails inside a virtual machine. Here’s how. These instructions should work for pretty much any Linux-based OS. But we have written them for Tails, […]

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]]> https://greycoder.com/how-to-set-up-a-virtual-machine-for-private-browsing/feed/ 0 How Does ICLOAK Plug-and-Play Privacy Work? https://greycoder.com/how-does-icloak-plug-and-play-privacy-work/ https://greycoder.com/how-does-icloak-plug-and-play-privacy-work/#respond Thu, 25 Feb 2016 03:30:24 +0000 http://greycoder.com/?p=11166 ICLOAK recently launched its plug-and-play online privacy solution, which is based on a custom Linux distribution that boots from a USB stick. We contacted the company to get a better sense of how exactly its privacy features work, including Tor integration, VPN availability and more. This is what ICLOAK founder Eric Delisle said in response […]

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]]> https://greycoder.com/how-does-icloak-plug-and-play-privacy-work/feed/ 0 New Tails OS 2.0 Release Updates Privacy Features https://greycoder.com/11029-2/ https://greycoder.com/11029-2/#respond Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:01:09 +0000 http://greycoder.com/?p=11029 Tails OS 2.0, the latest version of the privacy-focused Linux-based operating system, is out this week. It features a new interface and many application updates, including version 5.5 of the Tor browser. Tails 2.0 is designed to provide comprehensive, out-of-the-box privacy features. It comes with built-in Tor encryption for all network connections (not just the […]

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]]> https://greycoder.com/11029-2/feed/ 0 How To: Choose a Privacy-Focused Linux OS https://greycoder.com/10849-2/ https://greycoder.com/10849-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:35:39 +0000 http://greycoder.com/?p=10849 Using a Linux-based operating system can help you avoid many of the privacy pitfalls of Windows and Mac OS X. Here’s a guide to some of the most popular Linux distributions available, with notes on how they compare regarding ease of use and privacy. If you’ve never used Linux before, you may not understand that […]

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]]> https://greycoder.com/10849-2/feed/ 1 Two Free Privacy-Focused Mobile Operating Systems https://greycoder.com/two-free-private-mobile-operating-systems/ https://greycoder.com/two-free-private-mobile-operating-systems/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2016 01:36:28 +0000 http://greycoder.com/?p=10829 Making Android-based mobile devices more private and secure can be a challenge. Here’s a look at two custom-built versions of Android that aim to provide comprehensive out-of-the-box privacy and security, with little work on the part of the user. Privacy gaps on Android exist at several levels. There’s the operating system itself, which could have […]

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]]> https://greycoder.com/two-free-private-mobile-operating-systems/feed/ 2 How To: Configure Windows 10 Privacy Settings https://greycoder.com/how-to-configure-windows-10-privacy-settings/ https://greycoder.com/how-to-configure-windows-10-privacy-settings/#respond Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:50:22 +0000 http://greycoder.com/?p=10760 Privacy concerns in Windows 10 have spawned a number of apps designed to improve privacy in Microsoft’s operating system. Here’s a list of several apps you can use to help stop Windows 10 from collecting private information about you and sending it to Microsoft. You can, of course, configure privacy settings on Windows 10 manually. […]

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]]> https://greycoder.com/how-to-configure-windows-10-privacy-settings/feed/ 0 How To Make Windows 10 More Private https://greycoder.com/how-to-make-windows-10-more-private/ https://greycoder.com/how-to-make-windows-10-more-private/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:22:28 +0000 http://www.greycoder.com/?p=9558 Microsoft has never won any awards for protecting users’ privacy. But Windows 10 — the OS that “is spying on almost everything you do,” to quote from one article in the IT press — makes staying private harder than ever. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to mitigate the problem and improve security in […]

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