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Unhackable notifications: It's easy to encrypt Facebook with a PGP key
This post was originally published on February 10, 2017. Your Facebook account is valuable. It contains private chats, a list of your personal connections, and, if you use the Messenger app to send mo...
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Five BIG information security predictions for 2017
A year ago ExpressVPN made some predictions about what might happen in 2016. Some of these bold prophecies turned out to be correct, others not so much. Still, it was prescient-ish enough to warrant h...
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ExpressVPN's 6 big data security predictions for 2016: Which ones came true?
In January, ExpressVPN made some predictions about what might happen with information security during 2016. Were the predictions correct? Let’s review and see what actually happened. #1: Hackers wil...
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Some good things did happen in 2016
This post was originally published on December 12, 2016. Everyone agrees 2016 has been terrible. Much-loved people died, catastrophes happened, and no one could shake the feeling it was a particularly...
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ExpressVPN doesn't offer a NAT Firewall because there's no need to
If a VPN provider offers a NAT Firewall, it’s a good indication they assign each user a unique IP address. As this is suboptimal for privacy, ExpressVPN has the opposite approach---multiple users sh...
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Hyperlinks made the internet fabulous and they must not be taxed
This post was originally published on October 31, 2016. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) changed the internet and catapulted it to the mainstream, but it may be under threat from a new “Hyperlink ...
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What's best for internet privacy: Tor then VPN, or VPN then Tor?
There's ongoing confusion about how VPNs and Tor compare in regards to privacy and anonymity and competing opinions on how and when it makes sense to combine them. Do they work together, is there ever...
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Salts and hashes: How apps and websites protect your passwords
Password protection methods like Diceware, password managers, and two-factor authentication are just one side of the story. What are apps and websites doing on their end to protect your passwords? Her...
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Why the world must demand a decentralized internet
Development of various packet switching networks like ARPANET laid the foundations of the modern internet, for example by adopting the Internet Protocol Suite, which we know today as TCP/IP. The inter...
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What is an .onion address on Tor, and how to get one
On the internet, as most people use it, a domain name (e.g., expressvpn.com) is registered through a registrar. You usually pay a fee for this. The part after the dot on the right of the domain, like ...
