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  • The secret codes that nobody can crack

    The secret codes that nobody can crack

    Remember back in school, when you and your best friend would exchange secret notes across the classroom in code? The two of you muffling giggles because you knew that even if the teacher confiscated y...

    Julia 21.06.2018 3 mins
  • 4 ways to back up your data securely

    4 ways to back up your data securely

    Photos, documents, saved video games, and old emails: We accumulate a lot of data throughout our lives. And just like our parents’ attic, our digital bags are getting fuller and fuller. Luckily, the...

    Lexie 10.06.2018 5 mins
  • How to make a small server for your home

    How to make a small server for your home

    Servers are just computers without screens and keyboards, but they can be relatively cheap to buy, compared with the costs of renting a Virtual Private Server (VPS) in the cloud. Storage can quickly b...

    Lexie 29.05.2018 6 mins
  • Girl Scouts are our next wave of cybersecurity experts

    Girl Scouts are our next wave of cybersecurity experts

    Do you know what badges Girl Scouts are collecting these days? It’s not just Hiker, Making Friends, and Cookie CEO anymore. With a strong focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), ...

    Julia 23.05.2018 2 mins
  • PGP is still pretty good for privacy

    PGP is still pretty good for privacy

    Many privacy advocates use PGP (GNU Privacy Guard/GPG in its open source form) to encrypt, sign, and verify data and text of all sorts. PGP is a relatively well audited and trusted privacy and securit...

    Lexie 18.05.2018 2 mins
  • Here's why your printer is a tattletale

    Here's why your printer is a tattletale

    When you print, scan, or copy a document at home or in the office, it might look like any other document to your eyes. But, unbelievably, data on the page make it possible to track almost every docume...

    Lexie 23.03.2018 2 mins
  • 5 defiant, worrying, or outright bizarre Edward Snowden statements

    5 defiant, worrying, or outright bizarre Edward Snowden statements

    This article was originally published on March 12, 2018. Like the great Nostradamus, Edward Snowden has been a purveyor of the future, signaling time and again signs of things to come. Since joining T...

    Brad 12.03.2018 5 mins
  • 4 guides that will help improve your digital security

    4 guides that will help improve your digital security

    The ExpressVPN blog features advice, explanations, reviews, information security updates, online privacy, politics, ExpressVPN products, and all the things about which we are passionate. Some things, ...

    Lexie 31.01.2018 1 mins
  • Two Supreme Court cases that will redefine your digital privacy in 2018

    Two Supreme Court cases that will redefine your digital privacy in 2018

    NOTE: This post was originally published on January 16, 2018 Within the next six months, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will determine whether the U.S. government’s already exten...

    Ceinwen Thomas 16.01.2018 4 mins
  • How to use Bitcoin’s multisignature wallets

    How to use Bitcoin’s multisignature wallets

    A Bitcoin generally can only be spent by its owner as identified through their public key hash, e.g., their Bitcoin address. The Bitcoin protocol allows for different kinds of rules to define precisel...

    Lexie 12.01.2018 6 mins

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