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Why do I need a VPN? Here are 5 good reasons

A VPN is a clever bit of software that does two main things: It masks your IP address, and it encrypts your connection to keep it private. In other words: When you use a VPN, it looks like you’re connecting to the internet from somewhere else, and no one can see your online activity. It doesn’t matt.....

Why you shouldn’t ignore ‘Update Your Device’ messages

It’s pretty much second nature at this point. We start our laptops and hunker down in our seats, ready to power through the day with a steaming cup of coffee. As we browse through our daily calendar and catch up on unread emails, a familiar icon pops up. It’s urging you to update your existing opera.....

Why should I use two-factor authentication?

You might have skipped over your email provider’s prompt: Turn on two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, is a secondary security measure for logging into an online account, whether it’s your banking service or a social media site. It means that after entering a username and a .....

Staying private online could save you big bucks

By far the biggest offenders when it comes to mining your data are not governments or police, but rather advertising agencies. They will buy up your credit card history from your bank, embed trackers into the web pages they visit and trick you into downloading tools that monitor your behavior as muc.....

The fight for online privacy is heating up in Maine

About two years ago, the United States Senate voted in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 34, essentially enabling internet service providers (ISPs) to sell personal consumer information—location history and browsing data—to the highest bidder. That’s despite the bill’s robust opposition, which brough.....

What is a Bitcoin node and who needs one?

The Bitcoin network does not have a central authority that decides which transactions are valid and which are not. There is nobody who issues coins, and nobody who can take them back. Nobody knows how to turn Bitcoin off. Instead, Bitcoin is made up of computers called nodes, which can be as small a.....

Your devices are rating you. Behave accordingly.

Chances are you’ve seen “Nosedive,” the infamous Black Mirror episode depicting a world in which ordinary people rate each other on the basis of their social interactions. On the popular show—which takes aim at the pervasive nature of technology in our lives and paints a dystopian picture of the fut.....

As we rush toward convenience, say so long to privacy

We’re all guilty of the same thing. In our rush to download and install apps, we carelessly breeze through all the necessary permissions without even a second glance. Facebook wants to record audio? Absolutely. Gmail needs access to our phone contacts? You bet. Instagram wants to eavesdrop on our ca.....