Private Apps & Services
Private Apps & Services
If you’re looking for a new way to stay private online without using Tor or traditional proxies — or if you’d like to help other people do the same — an open-source browser extension called uProxy is right up your alley. uProxy’s developers pitch it as a “social application,” designed to help people stay private
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has made private and anonymous Internet browsing easier by officially granting special status to the .onion domain name. Now, Tor users can be more certain that their tracks are hidden when they visit sites that use the .onion domain. The change’s chief significance is that it makes it impossible
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The SSH protocol is normally used to log in remotely to computers. In a pinch, however, it can also serve as an excellent privacy tool by providing the same encryption and security protections as a VPN service. Here’s how to use SSH to encrypt your Web browsing session. VPN vs. SSH First, though, we should
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Many ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and public DNS providers will log your DNS queries or censor websites via DNS. We list three DNS providers that do not censor or log your queries.
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How private is Dropbox, the popular cloud storage and file syncing service? Not as private as it could be, for sure. But the platform’s developers have been taking steps recently to beef up the service’s security and privacy protections, namely by adding more robust authentication options. To Dropbox or Not to Dropbox? If you’re super-serious
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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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Adobe Flash: It’s what makes YouTube videos, online games, interactive media and plenty of other stuff on the Internet work. Unfortunately, it’s also a tool that Web developers can use to track your activities even if you take other steps to protect your privacy while browsing, like disabling cookies. But with the help of certain
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In theory, every networking device has a unique media access control, or MAC, address. In practice, using a simple tool called macchanger, it’s easy to “spoof” your computer’s MAC address on Linux by setting a random value for it each time you connect to a network, which helps protect your privacy. Here’s how and why.
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