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1. Doxxing: Tips to Protect Yourself Online & How to Minimize Harm

   The EFF provides advice on how to minimize harm from doxxing.

2. Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal

   Signal rolls out group calls to their secure, privacy-focused messaging app.

3. Tourists on Tech’s Toll Roads

   The future of open general purpose computing is threatened, but there are people and products that can help sustain it.

4. 5 Years of Intel CPUs and Chipsets Have a Concerning Flaw That’s Unfixable

   Intel's Converged Security and Management Engine contains an unfixable flaw that may allow an attacker to compromise a system's root of trust.

5. Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom

   Zoom's increased usage is causing its security and privacy issues to come under scrutiny.

6. The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions

   A recent hack illustrates the perils associated with the privileged position that browser extensions possess.

7. Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations

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

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

   Ars Technica provides a deep dive on email headers.

9. The Nextcloud Mission and Principles

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

10. What a No-Carrier Phone Could Look Like

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