By Dana Reyes
"Threat modeling" sounds like something for spies or security researchers, but the underlying idea is simple: you can't protect everything from everyone, so figure out what actually…
Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a full operating system you boot from a USB stick instead of installing on your hard drive. Shut it down and it forgets…
GrapheneOS is the most credible option for anyone who wants a genuinely private Android phone rather than a phone with a privacy-focused launcher bolted onto stock firmware. It's a hardened,…
Financial privacy is following the same regulatory trajectory as network privacy: the tools are increasingly legal to possess but harder to actually access through mainstream, regulated channels. If you hold…
ISP throttling — deliberately slowing specific traffic types rather than a genuine congestion response — is harder to prove than it used to be, since most large ISPs have gotten…
Disclosure: this walkthrough covers qBittorrent's built-in network-binding kill switch, which is free and works with any VPN that exposes a virtual network adapter — you don't need a VPN with…
A VPN that's 99% leak-proof is, for torrenting purposes, not leak-proof at all — a single dropped connection or misconfigured client can expose your real IP to every peer in…
Transmission is the default torrent client on most Linux distributions for a reason: it's lightweight, scriptable, and has a proper daemon mode (transmission-daemon) you can run headless on a NAS…