Privacy

As an avid reader, I've owned several generations of Kindle devices, from the original to the Paperwhite, and loved each of them. However, I have also kept a watchful eye on the abuse potential of the new format. Because Amazon technically owns the content you view, they may

Governments around the world continue to ramp up surveillance of protests and civil unrest. Here, I have tried to collect the governmental use of technologies to monitor and disrupt movements in repressive and democratic countries alike. Modern anti-protester tactics include many things: cell phone monitoring, communications disruptions, social media blocking,

Recently, I was tipped off about certain sites performing localhost port scans against visitors, presumably as part of a user fingerprinting and tracking or bot detection. This didn't sit well with me, so I went about investigating the practice, and it seems many sites are port scanning visitors

I'm a huge privacy advocate, and I use a number of plugins to help protect my privacy from trackers around the web. Some of these plugins come from well known organizations, such as the EFF (their excellent privacy badger plugin). Others are open source and supported by excellent