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Are we moving towards a closed-wall Internet?
I once reported on this blog how Sergei Brin, from Google, is warning us against the new face of the internet: in this previous…
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Why you need to be careful about check-in services
Due to the rise of social media, and especially the check-in features, we now have a lot of news reporting strange and funny stories…
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How to check what traces you are leaving when browsing the Internet? Amazing results – Guaranteed!
Last time, I told you that I’m a bit lost when it comes to identifying where I’m sharing some parts of my identity online.…
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2011 – A year of privacy issues on the Internet
Privacy on the internet has been threatened multiple times during this year 2011. Indeed, on multiple occasions, and from different parts of the world,…
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How to protect yourself from search tracking & leakage? Private search engines options
Internet user tracking is a sensitive issue nowadays. More and more sites and apps store info related to their user’s built profiles and try to…
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How would you feel if your passwords were published online?
This is another report about one of the attacks of the Anonymous guys (I can’t help talking about it since we’re in the middle…
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Google’s plan with its new Privacy Policy
If you are a user of one of Google’s “free” products, I’m sure you have received an e-mail from Google inviting you to check…
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What is WebRTC and how to protect yourself from WebRTC leaks?
This post briefly explains what WebRTC is and why you should be aware of the WebRTC leak. Also, it presents how to fix the…
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Privacy Report: Young People DO Care About Online Privacy
A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania has released a report that is among the first quantitative studies…
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Heartbleed Vulnerability – Should I Change the Password to My VPN Account?
You have probably heard about the recently discovered vulnerability (referred to as the Heartbleed bug) within the OpenSSL cryptographic software library, a worldwide standard…
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Fighting Spam: Disposable E-mail Addresses to the Rescue
Subscriptions are everywhere nowadays whenever you go to some random internet sites: whether it is for subscribing to newsletters and offer, opening an account…
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Internet Censorship Around The World
Thinking that it would be interesting to see what type of censorship is applied in each region of the world, the journalists from the…
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Russia: Livejournal versus Tor and the New Battle for Anonymity
As more and more countries join the list of nations where the governments have started restricting certain websites and content, the cyber world is…