Every few months, the internet discovers a new opinion about VPNs. One week they are essential tools that everyone should use. The next week they are supposedly useless snake oil. Then someone on Reddit claims that HTTPS made VPNs obsolete. Someone else insists that a VPN makes you completely anonymous. Before long, nobody knows what to believe anymore. Image created by me using Create Studio 4. As someone who spends far too much time thinking about privacy, cybersecurity, an

There are quiet days in cybersecurity, and then there are days when a single corporate decision manages to undermine an entire trust model. This is the latter. I created this picture using Create Studio 4 . Without warning, Microsoft suspended developer access for some of the most critical open source security tools in existence, including WireGuard and VeraCrypt. No prior notice, no meaningful explanation, and most importantly no immediate way for developers to fix the situa

There is a fundamental misconception about privacy. Read this to understand privacy and learn how to protect it.

The truth behind age verification and child safety.

Drones are amazing. They save lives and do things that would be otherwise impossible. And they kill people...

It's never easy to talk about generative AI, privacy and FOSS at an academic level. But I just did it!

Now that more than a week has passed, you can ask yourself: “What are my goals for 2026?” Image created by me using Create Studio 4. This is a very important question, but I think you need to ask a better one like this: “How do I set goals and how do I achieve them?” The reason I write this is that most goals are way too big and so vague that one cannot even grasp them. Goals like “I want to earn more money” or “I want to get fit” are doomed at the moment they are created. Wh

Big companies own you. They know everything about you. Here is the only way you can do against them.

Your brain is not meant for digital inputs. It has been compromised. Click here to reclaim your biological privacy!

The AI bubble os on the edge of bursting. What happens with our data, when it does? It will surely be a privacy nightmare.

Surveillance led the greedy tech companies to bid on your data, every time you click on something or hit "Enter".

Ah, the internet. A vast wonderland of memes, cat videos, and deeply questionable privacy practices. Every click, every scroll, and every...

The U.S. government, of all entities, has decided to officially recommend Signal . Yes, you heard that right – the same government that...

It’s funny, isn’t it? How every shiny new gadget we bring into our lives seems to come with an invisible tagline: “Now with extra...