- Jan 23, 2023
- Kristin Hassel
- Online Privacy,
SOCKS5 VPN: What It Is & Why PIA Is the Best
A SOCKS5 VPN lets you use SOCKS5 protocol without tricky manual setup. Discover more about SOCKS5 proxies and what makes a SOCKS5 VPN the better option.
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Tag: linux
- Oct 6, 2022
- Adina Matei
- Product Updates,
How We Built One of the Best Linux Apps in the Industry
Private Internet Access has always worked to ensure Linux users get all the same features enjoyed by Windows and macOS. Here’s how we do it
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- Apr 16, 2021
- Chris Miller
- Privacy News Online,
Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 16, 2021
Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 16, 2021 What the Great Personal Data Leak of 2021 tells us about Facebook Last week, we reported on the 533 million Facebook users whose data was leaked online. Despite the severity of the leak and its contents, Facebook’s official response was: “We believe the data in … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 16, 2021”
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- Dec 11, 2019
- Private Internet Access
- Announcements, VPN,
Private Internet Access updates Linux desktop client to prevent against [CVE-2019-14899]
The Breakpointing Bad team at the University of New Mexico recently reported a VPN vulnerability that affects Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, and more. The vulnerability allows malicious actors to not only see your VPN IP address, but also identify sites you are visiting and inject data into connections. The team consists of William J. Tolley, … Continue reading “Private Internet Access updates Linux desktop client to prevent against [CVE-2019-14899]”
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- Apr 27, 2019
- Glyn Moody
- General Privacy News,
How to use a FreedomBox running open source software to regain control of your online privacy
As numerous posts on this blog have noted, some of the biggest threats to privacy come from Internet giants like Facebook and Google. The centralized nature of their services allows them to aggregate personal data on a huge scale, and to extract information that we never agreed to provide. Although it is only recently that … Continue reading “How to use a FreedomBox running open source software to regain control of your online privacy”
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- Jul 11, 2018
- Derek Zimmer
- Cybersecurity,
Reproducible Builds – Solving an Old Open Source Problem to Improve Security
One of the billion-dollar problems in the world of computers is getting software to act reliably. Fundamentally, when software misbehaves, it leads to flaws that can impact performance, reliability and security. One of the best things about computers is that they do exactly what you tell them to do. One of the worst things about … Continue reading “Reproducible Builds – Solving an Old Open Source Problem to Improve Security”
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