Private Transactions: 3 Cryptocurrencies More Private Than Bitcoin
In my last post, I explained how bitcoin isn’t as anonymous as you might think. Every bitcoin transaction is completely transparent and visible on the blockchain. If I know your…
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Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth
Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had…
Microsoft and Facebook start intervening in private conversations. How long until they beep out unwanted parts in real time?
For the first time, a telecommunications provider is having opinions on the content of your conversations. This is unprecedented and a sharp deviation from all previous history. How long until…
If you use a browser extension, your full Internet history may be for sale – and easily de-anonymized
The recent repeal of broadband privacy protection in the US has highlighted the highly-personal nature of browsing histories. One natural solution is to use a VPN in order to shield…
50 Star Fireshow, formerly called Freedom and Fireworks: Celebrate Independence Day with Private Internet Access, Snoop Dogg and the people of Jersey City.
For the fifth year running, people will flock to the Hudson River to celebrate Independence Day together at the largest fireworks display in the state. Around 200,000 people are expected…
Private Internet Access adds BEAM to its list of anonymous payment methods
Private Internet Access now accepts anonymous payments through BEAM, providing our users with yet another way to protect their privacy and anonymity when signing up for our service. What is…
Identity and Card Theft – Shielding Yourself from the Unsafe Small Business
With a constant stream of news of big organizations that have neglected their security, we often forget that the most vulnerable organizations are the small and medium businesses that don't…
DEAD – An attack vector on web services, due to e-mail’s faults due to DNS
Domain Emails Are Dead (DEAD) A security reminder that e-mail and DNS should never be a critical component of a secure system architecture. PROBLEM DEAD is a potential vulnerability in…
Articles 11 and 13 in the New EU Copyright Directive Enable More Surveillance
Articles 11 and 13 in the New EU Copyright Directive are a Path to More Surveillance Privacy activists were caught off guard last week when the EU passed its controversial…
Encrypted Media Extensions: Copyright, DRM and the end of the open Web
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which sets standards for the Web, has released what it calls a "disposition of comments", designed to address objections to the controversial Encrypted Media…