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🔗 Goodbye PGP

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🔗 Future-Proof Digital Timestamping

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🔗 The Privacy Implications of Weak AI

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🔗 On Data Leaks

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🔗 Avoid Using Cryptocurrency

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🔗 Don't Use GitHub

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🔗 Private Online Shopping

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🔗 Mourning the Loss of Privacy

📆 9 Apr 2021 | ⏱️ 1‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 [Video] Car Surveillance: an Unregulated Privacy Disaster

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🔗 Cover Your Cameras

📆 29 Mar 2021 | ⏱️ 9‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Don't Record Others Without Permission

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🔗 [Video] Monero: More Anonymous Than Cash

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🔗 On Malware

📆 9 Mar 2021 | ⏱️ 3‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 [Video] Is Your Keyboard Spying on You?

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🔗 [Video] You Should Delete Your Whatsapp ASAP

📆 27 Jan 2021 | ⏱️ 10‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Dead Man's Switch

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📆 18 Jan 2021 | ⏱️ 4‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Consumer Data Protection is a Distraction

📆 14 Jan 2021 | ⏱️ 3‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 [Video] Fixing Social Media for Good

📆 11 Jan 2021 | ⏱️ 2‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 [Video] TikTok - a Trojan Horse into China's Dystopia

📆 6 Jan 2021 | ⏱️ 16‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 On Blockchain

📆 28 Dec 2020 | ⏱️ 5‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 The Privacy Paradox

📆 25 Dec 2020 | ⏱️ 5‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 IPv6 Adoption

📆 20 Dec 2020 | ⏱️ 1‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Social Media Alternatives

📆 17 Dec 2020 | ⏱️ 5‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Atom and RSS

📆 16 Dec 2020 | ⏱️ 8‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Avoiding Automobile Surveillance

📆 21 Nov 2020 | ⏱️ 7‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Get an Anonymous Phone Number with DTMF.io

📆 20 Nov 2020 | ⏱️ 1‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Stop Amazon's Police State

📆 19 Nov 2020 | ⏱️ 9‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Remote Fair Coin Flipping with Friends

📆 16 Nov 2020 | ⏱️ 9‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Avoiding Consumer Surveillance

📆 14 Nov 2020 | ⏱️ 3‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Raising the Bar on Privacy

📆 29 Oct 2020 | ⏱️ 14‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Using Email

📆 20 Oct 2020 | ⏱️ 11‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Use Free Software

📆 22 Sep 2020 | ⏱️ 7‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Thoughts on Blogging

📆 21 Sep 2020 | ⏱️ 2‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 SIUe Unauthenticated SMTP Server

📆 9 Sep 2020 | ⏱️ 7‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 Networked EV Charging Stations

📆 2 Jul 2020 | ⏱️ 7‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 Why I Left ITS

📆 10 Jun 2020 | ⏱️ 8‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 SIUe e-ID Creation and Maintenance Problems

📆 6 Jun 2020 | ⏱️ 1‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 SIUe Cyberstalking Feature

📆 23 May 2020 | ⏱️ 20‑minute read | 🏷️ computing

🔗 Exposing Zoom

📆 30 Apr 2020 | ⏱️ 11‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 Rejecting Visual Studio

📆 30 Mar 2020 | ⏱️ 8‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 The Tipping Point — Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor

📆 30 Mar 2020 | ⏱️ 5‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 Rejecting Discord and Google Colab

📆 30 Mar 2020 | ⏱️ 11‑minute read | 🏷️ computing, siue

🔗 Inception — Rejecting Discord, Draw.io, and Visual Studio

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