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Best Privacy Tools & Software Guide in in 2025
Best Privacy Tools & Software Guide in in 2025
The most reliable website for privacy tools since 2015. Software, services, apps and privacy guides to fight surveillance with encryption for better internet privacy.
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Best Privacy Tools & Software Guide in in 2025
What’s Section 215, And Why Should You Care?
What’s Section 215, And Why Should You Care?
This year, U.S. laws used to justify mass surveillance are set to expire, but the U.S. Congress will renew those laws unless overwhelmingly told to let
·privateinternetaccess.com·
What’s Section 215, And Why Should You Care?
Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi
Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi
By Maurits Martijn, from De Correspondent Translated from Dutch by Jona Meijers Illustrations by Kristina Collantes In his backpack, Wouter Slotboom, 34, carries around a small black device, slightly…
·medium.com·
Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi
Dropbox account passwords posted online and millions more might follow
Dropbox account passwords posted online and millions more might follow
If you haven't activated two-factor authentication on Dropbox yet, you may want to do so now, just in case you end up finding your credentials posted on the internet. A document posted on pastebin earlier contains 400 Dropbox usernames and passwords, which the poster claims are just a tiny fraction of a massive hack that compromises up to 7 million accounts. The poster has been asking for Bitcoin donations in exchange for more accounts, and by the looks of it, he got enough money, at least, to post another batch of log-in credentials within the same day. At the moment, it's still unclear how the hacker(s) got a hold of the usernames and passwords, but the cloud service told Engadget that Dropbox itself has not been hacked. Update: Dropbox again stated that it has not been hacked, this time in a blog post, and says security measures are in place to detect accounts compromised with log-in info stolen from other sites.
·engadget.com·
Dropbox account passwords posted online and millions more might follow
‘Hostile to privacy’: Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
‘Hostile to privacy’: Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
Edward Snowden has hit out at Dropbox and other services he says are “hostile to privacy,” urging web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.
·rt.com·
‘Hostile to privacy’: Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
Google and Apple Won't Unlock Your Phone, But a Court Can Make You Do It
Google and Apple Won't Unlock Your Phone, But a Court Can Make You Do It
Silicon Valley's smartphone snitching has come to an end. Apple and Google have promised that the latest versions of their mobile operating systems make it impossible for them to unlock encrypted phones, even when compelled to do so by the government. But if the Department of Justice can't demand that its corporate friends unlock your phone, it may have another option: Politely asking that you unlock it yourself, and letting you rot in a cell until you do.
·wired.com·
Google and Apple Won't Unlock Your Phone, But a Court Can Make You Do It
Apple's Patriot-Act-detecting "warrant canary" dies
Apple's Patriot-Act-detecting "warrant canary" dies
It's been less than a day since the company published its new, excellent privacy policy — but Gigaom has noticed that the latest Apple transparency report, covering Jan 1-Jun 30…
·boingboing.net·
Apple's Patriot-Act-detecting "warrant canary" dies