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Cybersecurity Basics – Keeping It Simple What’s “cybersecurity basics” got to do with self-reliance? Well, as an Off The Grid reader, you understand the importance of preparing for major disasters. Catastrophes such as EMP attacks, economic collapses, and natural disasters. ...

Are “privacy” and “anonymity” mere synonyms, at least, when placed in the context of online safety and IT security? Simply put, no. While privacy and anonymity may have similar tradecraft practices and protocols, the very heart of their differences lay ...

Technology is already confusing, but sometimes it can just get downright daunting. Especially these days, between the little microphones in TVs and the GPS in our smartphones, it’s easy to feel like there’s just no possibility of getting a little ...

WASHINGTON — Your fingerprints might be a major threat to your privacy. That’s because the images taken by smartphone cameras are so full of detail that it is now possible to copy fingerprints from them, Professor Isao Echizen of Japan’s ...

For years, Google’s privacy policy essentially prohibited the company from running ads targeting users based off of activity in its popular Gmail platform – meaning that if you sent someone an email about, say, groceries, you would not then necessarily ...

Windows 10 could be a major threat to your privacy, and Microsoft is trying to force you to use it whether you want it or not. In fact, if you use Windows 7 or 8, Microsoft could automatically update you ...

April 25th, 2016 Video courtesy of Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know When a massive leak of internal documents from a Panama-based law firm revealed a web of offshore tax-dodging outfits across the planet, millions of people began to wonder ...

January 25th, 2016 Video courtesy of The Good Stuff An Earthship is a home that captures its own water, recycles its own sewage, and produces all its own electricity and food. It’s meant to function completely independent of the power ...

A drone could hover a few above your lawn and you would have no legal right to do anything. That’s because there is no clear doctrine on how far into the sky property rights extend. Instead, there are two conflicting ...

January 4th, 2016 Video courtesy of Tim Pool Windows 10 is tracking you and reading your content and soon windows will roll out the same updates for Windows 7 and 8. New Book Reveals the Little Known Secrets of How ...