Privacy Blog

"Friends don’t let friends get spied on.' – Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation and longtime advocate of privacy in technology.

Product Review

DataLocker DL3 1TB Encrypted External Hard Drive

One device should be an excellent method of keeping backups of your Windows, Macintosh, or Linux computer safe from prying eyes. It obviously would also be an excellent method of sending a lot of data to someone else in a method that is safe. Want to keep your cryptocurrency wallet safe? Copy the wallet to this external encrypted hard drive, unplug the drive, then erase the wallet from the computer. […]

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Idka: the Best Social Network that You Probably Never Heard Of

I don’t know why this competitor to Facebook and other web sites doesn’t get more publicity. Maybe it is because the company doesn’t have a multi-million dollar advertising budget? According to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idka: “Idka AB is a collaborative social networking platform headquartered in Sweden. Idka allows you to connect, share, store and share documents and files, while keeping your data completely safe. Idka is advertising-free, and fully encrypted. The […]

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Anonabox PRO WiFi TOR and VPN Router for Internet Privacy

I just returned from a two-week trip to New Zealand and then to Singapore. I wanted to have secure communications via email and via Google Duo (similar to Apple FaceTime but for both iPhone and Android cell phones) and I also wanted to be able to surf the web securely. I didn’t want any hackers to view online transactions with my bank account, credit card companies, or any online purchases […]

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iCloak Offers Security and Anonymity when Online

iCloak is a small device that looks like a USB flashdrive. It plugs into the USB connector on a Windows or Macintosh computer and offers what is supposedly a secure and untraceable online connection to the World Wide Web. It works by substituting for the Windows or OSX Macintosh operating system in your computer. The tiny device has two operating systems installed inside, one for Windows PCs and another one […]

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