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Geek Squad Email Scam: How to Spot It and What to Do
In 2025, the Geek Squad scam is still around and it’s more convincing than ever. The official-looking messages, familiar branding, and just enough personal detail can even fool the careful. To be clear: Geek Squad is Best Buy’s legitimate tech support service, but scammers exploit its good reputation to deceive their victims. In this guide,… Read more
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ChatGPT and Privacy: Everything You Need to Know in 2026
ChatGPT has serious privacy issues. It can collect and process highly sensitive details and associate it with your email and phone number. Read more
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Safe Sexting: Technical Tips to Keep Your Photos Secure
Sexting has become a common form of communication in modern dating. It’s the exchange of sexually explicit (or suggestive) messages online, which can often include pictures or recordings. Like any other form of sensitive information sharing, sexting comes with certain risks that are worth understanding before engaging in it. We at PIA firmly believe that… Read more
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PIA is now on F-Droid. Here what’s that means (and how to get it)
Being open source is in our DNA. For PIA, it’s the foundation of how we build and the community we strive to create. We pride ourselves on being a VPN where anyone can read the code we actually ship — Android, iOS, desktop, you name it. You don’t have to trust a description of what… Read more
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Netcat: What It Is and Why You Need It
Most of the time, you don’t think about what’s happening between your computer and the sites or apps you use. You expect things to work and when they don’t, it’s frustrating. That’s where Netcat comes in. Netcat is a command-line network utility that you can use to see if a connection is open, if a… Read more
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TKIP Explained: How It Works and Why It’s No Longer Secure
The Wi-Fi Alliance, working with the IEEE 802.11i task group, introduced the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) in 2002 to address weaknesses in the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security standard. Eventually, stronger Wi-Fi security protocols replaced it. In this guide, we’ll explain what TKIP is, how it works, and why it’s no longer recommended. We’ll… Read more
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Roblox Ban Guide: Account Bans, IP Bans, and Appeals
Since a Roblox ban can refer to several types of restrictions, it can be hard to know whether you’re dealing with a temporary account suspension, a ban from a single Roblox experience, or a technical issue. This guide explains the main types of Roblox restrictions, what causes them, how long they can last, how to… Read more
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Update Your PIA App for the Latest Network Improvements
Running a large VPN network means continuously maintaining, updating, and improving the systems behind it. PIA has been rolling out infrastructure updates across parts of its network to improve routing, increase capacity, and support a more reliable everyday connection. To get the best experience from these network updates, we recommend updating your Private Internet Access… Read more