Advice From A Delta Operator on Keeping Yourself Safe Online

Your IP address isn’t a treasure map for hackers—it’s more like a return address on an envelope, and if you’re smart about it, you can make sure the only thing getting ‘returned to sender’ is their attempt to mess with your digital life.

The best and worst encrypted email apps and services

Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series focusing on the best encrypted apps and services available. Content has been provided by an anonymous security and privacy professional. Readers are encouraged to verify this information on their own. ProtonMail ProtonMail was founded by CERN and MIT scientists after the Snowden leak. Their goal was […]

Russia orders Telegram app to be banned

Russia has recently begun blocking Amazon and Google IPs en masse — 1.8 million, as of now. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, otherwise known as Roskomnadzor, is the governmental body responsible for censorship in the media throughout Russia. On Friday, they began to block the Telegram app, a ruling […]

China restricting internet access by banning virtual private networks (VPN)

The Chinese government is moving to ban the use of VPNs for individual Chinese citizens by 2018, in an effort to exert “internet sovereignty” according to President Xi Jinping. VPN’s, or virtual private networks, have been used as a workaround for internet users in China to access internet content beyond the government censors. The censorship […]

The Internet; For better or for worse?

In semi-secure anonymous realm of the Net, it can be zero-to-jugular in a second flat, and some folks are looking to shave off those last few tenths of a second from their last year’s olympic qualifying time. The Internet really is a double-edged cyber sword, isn’t it?