Browsing: Privacy

Silently enabling a Man in the Middle attack to audit every website you visit would never go over, unless it’s marketed as a “feature”.

Metadata isn’t considered “data” by anti-surveillance law, so analysis of where you go and when is fair game. Thing is, where you go and when can pick you out of a crowd almost instantly.

I don’t like the idea of my multimedia device keeping a connection with a vendor telling them everything I’m doing, it’s rude. I completed a network analysis and found out it was worse than I thought.

In this scenario we review a home setup

In this scenario we address things like professional websites.

When I ask others what their biggest security concern is the most common answer I get back is “I have no idea, where do I even start?” – this article addresses that.

Here are some conversation starters you can use when selecting a provider.

Developers for Chrome and Firefox have been working on a new push notification system, and some sites are able to sign you up for ads without notice or opt-in. Here’s what you can do about it.

There are a number of reasons why targeted advertisements are bad – here I’ll provide two screenshots to make the problem with targeted advertising very clear.

In this article from The Guardian, they show that the price of a “free” website is higher than the general public knows.