Jonah is the founder of Privacy Guides, a member of the Techlore team, and an educational YouTuber. Additional work with HackerNoon, DigitalOcean, and Experimax.
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After installing torrc and pointing your hidden service to your Caddy server: # Redirect base domain to www subdomain http://example.onion { redir http://www.example.onion{uri} } # Proxy all subdomains of example.com http://*.example.onion { @hostnames header_regexp hostname Host (\S+)\.example\.onion # note the backslashes before the dots
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Today I'm going to walk you through running a local Monero node on your Synology NAS using the Container Manager app on the Synology DiskStation Manager 7 operating system. You will need to enter this text in Container Manager when you get to the compose file creation step
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My latest video in which I talk about Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new automatic data broker opt-out tool from the creators of Firefox, and the ridiculousness that having to deal with data brokers legally sharing all your personal information in the United States is a thing at all. Video Notes
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Privacy advocacy groups like the EFF and Fight for the Future have been warning about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) since 2022 now, but it's still been working its way through Senate committees despite this, and it's never been closer to passing than now. To
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Apple's press release yesterday reads with the professionally and poise of a teenager throwing a tantrum, it's amazing really. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European UnionApple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in
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A browser tier list that actually has more than just the 10-15 usual suspects? Yep, I'm sharing my thoughts on a lot of browsers today. Let me know in a comment where your daily driver ranks and what you think about it! This whole list will of course
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The recent move among U.S. states to add digital "age verification" to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one. Digital age verification systems are rife with privacy concerns, many requiring you to upload your government ID to third-party vendors or even directly to the website
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The latest iOS 17.2 update arrived this week, bringing Contact Key Verification to the public. This feature, announced a year ago, promises to drastically improve the security of your iMessages through two technologies: Key Transparency, and Contact Key Verification. In this post I’ll talk about why this added
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A video in which I respond to Mental Outlaw’s “Stop Using Tor With VPNs” video that somebody shared with me, and then also talk more about Tor security.
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Google Pay and Apple Wallet don’t work quite how most people expect. Can they be trusted to protect your privacy and security? I made this quick explainer to cover how both of these products work.
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In which I upgrade my ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) model to 64GB RAM, thanks to non-binary DDR5 memory~
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Bluesky Social is one of the biggest contenders in the fight to replace Twitter, but does it live up to its goals? I’ve been using Bluesky for a few weeks now, and I want to highlight some of its advantages over other popular competitors like Mastodon, and explain why
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Passkeys have really started taking off since Apple and Google announced native support for them in iOS and Android. They’ve been in the news again recently, because earlier this month Google announced support for passwordless authentication for Google accounts with Passkeys. So, with big tech companies seemingly going all-in
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Privacy advocates have been calling for the United States to adopt strong consumer privacy protection laws along the lines of the EU’s GDPR for a long time now, but the proposed Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act ain’t it, chief.
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First, some background: Henry and I discussed this topic on Episode 8 of the Techlore Talks podcast, and if you watch YouTube yourself and haven’t been living under a rock, you probably already know: Early in the morning (Pacific Time), Linus Media Group’s (LMG) three biggest channels were
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Despite its occasional abuse, anonymity online is a valuable privilege that cannot be given up nor taken for granted. In Techlore Talks #4, Henry and I discussed freedom of speech, anonymity on the internet, and the content moderation policies of online platforms. Certainly these are hot topics in this day