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Welcome to Privacy Guides

The team formerly known as PrivacyTools welcomes you to join a new community focused around privacy and security education.

4 min readSep 15, 2021

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Welcome to Privacy Guides

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Jonah

Threat Modeling: The First Skill You Need To Begin Your Privacy Journey

Creating your own “threat model” allows you to quantify what or who you’re up against exactly, and protect yourself accordingly and…

6 min readSep 13, 2021

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Threat Modeling: The First Skill You Need To Begin Your Privacy Journey

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The PrivacyTools Team

Protecting Your Privacy With a Virtual Machine While Using Zoom

With the COVID-19 outbreak keeping many at home, Zoom has been seen a huge increase in use with schools and businesses. But with growing…

5 min readApr 3, 2020

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Protecting Your Privacy With a Virtual Machine While Using Zoom

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Jonah

The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites

There’s a massive problem in the privacy world. Websites, social media accounts, and other platforms are constantly popping up out of…

8 min readNov 20, 2019

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The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites

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Jonah

Firefox Privacy: A Guide to Better Browsing

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers around, and for good reason. It’s fast, secure, open-source, and it’s backed by an…

12 min readNov 9, 2019

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Firefox Privacy: A Guide to Better Browsing

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Jonah

Choosing a VPN

There are so many VPN providers to choose from! We’ll show you how to sort through the mess and choose a service that works for you.

6 min readOct 30, 2019

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Choosing a VPN

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Jonah

Understanding VPNs

A VPN — or Virtual Private Network — is a tool that secures your internet connection from attackers on your network. Before I explain how…

5 min readOct 26, 2019

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Understanding VPNs

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The PrivacyTools Team

Adding Custom DNS over HTTPS Resolvers to DNSCloak

DNSCloak is an open-source DNSCrypt and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) client for iOS, which gives users the ability to encrypt their DNS requests…

5 min readSep 3, 2019

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Adding Custom DNS over HTTPS Resolvers to DNSCloak

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Jonah

Self-hosting a Shadowsocks VPN with Outline

Outline is a suite of open-source software developed for journalists to safely access their network and the internet while traveling in…

7 min readAug 22, 2019

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Self-hosting a Shadowsocks VPN with Outline

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Jonah

Enabling Pushover Notifications on Successful SSH Logins

If you run servers for public services, like I do with privacytools.io, you definitely want to monitor them for any successful logins to…

2 min readMay 15, 2019

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Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.
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I’m a writer, system administrator, and digital privacy advocate. Visit my website at https://www.jonaharagon.com

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