A hands-On Review with Session — A Fully Encrypted Chat App
As with Threema and SimpleX, Session is one of the most secure and private chat apps that you get today (more so than Signal, and way more so than WhatsApp). A lot of this is […]
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Signal introduces convenient “call links” for private group chats up to 50 people without creating a group
Users can control who joins the secure group chats by requiring admin approval when a new join request is created, so the host can approve or decline them. Nice to see such chats also have […]
SearXNG is an open source privacy respecting metasearch engine that is really easy to use
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity. My video covers […]
How to Turn Any Website Into an Android App (and Why You Should)
Imagine accessing your favourite web-only tools as native apps on your Android smartphone. Or, better yet, having separate instances of the same app logged in from two or three different accounts. That’s just scratching the […]
4 reasons your cloud provider should be using end-to-end encryption
We’re all pretty dependent on cloud services nowadays, with everything from our email inboxes to game streaming services storing our data somewhere other than on our physical computers. But with that ever-increasing dependency comes inherent […]
Android 15 Private Space and Samsung Secure Folder: A Side-By-Side Comparison
For years, Samsung users have enjoyed the convenience and privacy of Secure Folder, a separate space on their Samsung Galaxy phones for sensitive apps, media, files, and data. With Android 15, Google joins the party […]
Samsung Backups and Cloud Sync can be End-To-End-Encrypted, but you need to Enable it
Buried in the settings of certain Samsung Galaxy devices, there’s a feature Samsung calls Enhanced Data Protection. This is a fancy, branded name for end-to-end encryption. It means that when you back up or sync […]
Google Is Cracking Down on Ad Blockers, But Here’s How You Can Fight Back
In the interests of fighting terrorism and child pornography… oh wait, no not those, in the interests of improving your own security the following changes are being made. It’s corporate BS as we all know […]
12 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools
Steganography is the art and science of concealing messages in other messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message. It’s a form […]
Secret crypto code that helped end apartheid has been cracked and open-sourced
Operation Vula was a mission to infiltrate key leaders such as Mac Maharaj and Charles Nqakula into South Africa while ensuring good lines of communication between them and the ANC’s headquarters-in-exile in Lusaka, Zambia. “Even […]