The Basics of Privacy
What is Privacy? >> Privacy is a basic human emotion like love, aspiration, empathy, and understanding. It’s what we feel when we lock the restroom door, it’s what we feel…
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Five Ready-to-Use Privacy Tools
While one could preach going off the grid altogether to leave no traces at all, that's barely compatible with a modern lifestyle. You could argue that you should stop using…
Protecting Your Privacy: Understanding Traces You Leave For An Adversary
Whenever you're online, you're leaving small markers of identity, several different kinds and on several different levels. This is necessary for everyday communication on the Internet - for example, if…
Linux networking stack from the ground up, part 3
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 Overview This post will pick up where part 2 left off, beginning by describing a packet…
What is Privacy?
Privacy is a basic human emotion like love, aspiration, empathy, and understanding. It's what we feel when we lock the restroom door, it's what we feel when we lay back…
Linux networking stack from the ground up, part 2
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 Overview This post will pick up where part 1 left off, beginning by explaining what ethtool…
Linux networking stack from the ground up, part 1
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 Purpose This multi-part blog series aims to outline the path of a packet from the wire through…
At What Point Is Internet Access Considered A Fundamental Right?
At what point does the Internet cease to be a luxury subscription service, and become a utility, and over and above that - when does Internet access become a fundamental…
When Everything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You, Do You Really Have Freedom Of Speech?
What you're saying unencrypted today can and will come back to hunt you in twenty years by a different government with different values. Once you realize this, do you really…
Outlook 2016: Policymaking and Technology Will Continue to Diverge
Policymaking and technology have diverged for the past 30 years, in the battle between an imaginary "right to incumbency" on one hand and disruptive makers on the other. Eventually, one…