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Articles tagged with Security

1. Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations

   Cryptographer Matthew Green evaluates the import and effects of the Snowden revelations.

2. How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware Attacks

   Insurance companies' amenability to pay, even when data recovery alternatives are available, may be aggrandizing ransomware attacks.

3. What All the Stuff in Email Headers Means—and How to Sniff Out Spoofing

   Ars Technica provides a deep dive on email headers.

4. The Nextcloud Mission and Principles

   Nexcloud's CEO formalizes the project's values with a mission and principles statement.

5. What a No-Carrier Phone Could Look Like

   The Librem 5 and Librem Dial service may help aggrandize smartphone users' freedom.

6. A Better Search Experience With DuckDuckGo

   DuckDuckGo is a feature-packed privacy-focused search engine that can improve your search experience.

7. Enhancing Your Browsing Experience With Extensions

   Browser extensions can be a privacy/security liability. However, the right extensions can help protect your browsing experience.

8. If You Are a Linux User, Make Your Next PC Powered by AMD

   There is an increasingly strong case to be made for GNU/Linux users, and perhaps any general purpose computer users, to more strongly consider alternatives to the Intel-based platform.