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Comparing (private and secure) browsers

Privacy is a big issue that is present in everyone's lives, and it naturally tends to pop into our heads, especially when we're just browsing the internet. It's not surprising at all. Internet privacy is no longer just a matter of "open door

The Wall Against Big Brother II. – Browser Extensions

In the last episode of The Wall Against Big Brother, we explained how browser fingerprinting, cookies, local/sessionStorage, and other tracking tricks that lurk on the Internet work. In this section, however, we'll focus on protecting our privacy. Specifically, with the help of browser extensions. To disable or

The Wall Against Big Brother I. – Cookies are retro

In my article on clients and replacements for classic social networks, we mentioned something about how encryption is far from the only guarantor of self-defense against Big Brother. This time, we'll also look at security and protecting our privacy, but from a slightly different perspective. We'll

Session and SimpleX – encrypted messenger comparison

In our last article, we took a look at Signal and Telegram, two giants in the encrypted communications industry, and compared some of their features as well as their security and privacy levels. Among other things, we also sort of sketched out two other messengers that are poised to become

Signal vs Telegram

In the last article about encrypted communication and clients for big brother apps, we explained what the network effect is, what privacy actually is, and all the different ways we can look at it. We also outlined why, from a security and privacy perspective, I don't consider Telegram

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