Category: Privacy
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Stop giving your information away carelessly!
27 tips for improving your cyber-hygiene Who is most responsible for your online privacy being violated? You are. Privacy is one of the biggest concerns in tech news recently. The importance of personal privacy is something everybody seems to be able to agree on. But if you’re concerned about privacy, then you need stop giving your…
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How I locked down my passwords
If you’re one of those people who uses the same password for everything, especially if it’s a simple password, you’re a fool and you need to stop. But if you’re going to maintain a zillion different passwords for a zillion different sites, how? Password management software. I’ve been using the free, open source KeePass, which…
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How I set up private email hosting for my family
Here’s how I actually set up my own private email hosting—sanger.io! I already finished choosing a private email hosting provider. So what was the next step? I still had to choose a plan with my chosen provider (InMotion Hosting, which didn’t pay me anything for this) and make it official. The details are uninteresting; anybody…
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How I’m locking down my cyber-life
Drafted Jan. 4, 2019; updated occasionally since then; most recently updated May 11, 2019 Three problems of computer technology My 2019 New Year’s resolution (along with getting into shape, of course) is to lock down my cyber-life. This is for three reasons. First, threats to Internet security of all sorts have evolved beyond the reckoning…
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How the government can monitor U.S. citizens
Just what tools do American governments—federal, state, and local—have to monitor U.S. citizens? There are other such lists online, but I couldn’t find one that struck me as being quite complete. This list omits strictly criminal tracking, because while criminals are citizens, actual crime obviously needs to be tracked. First, there’s what you yourself reveal: the government can use whatever information you yourself put…
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Why Edward Snowden deserves a pardon, explained in 10 easy steps
Let me put this briefly and simply. The government should not be snooping on us. But they started anyway. That was wrong and unconstitutional. When they did, they made their snooping program secret. That was wrong twice over, a cover-up of a wrong. Then they actually lied about the existence of the program to Congress,…
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A Defense of Modest Real Name Requirements
Lunchtime speech at the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 13th Annual Symposium: Altered Identities, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 13, 2008. I. Introduction Let me say up front, for the benefit of privacy advocates, that I agree entirely that it is possible to have an interesting discussion and productive collaborative effort among anonymous contributors,…