Slicing onions: Part 1 — Myth-busting Tor.

The Tor network is an anonymity system designed to protect the privacy and anonymity…

Adding Custom DNS over HTTPS Resolvers to DNSCloak

Self-hosting a Shadowsocks VPN with Outline

Outline is a suite of open-source software developed for journalists to safely…

The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites

There’s a massive problem in the privacy world. Websites, social media accounts…

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 user accounts (via SSH, et cetera). The way I plan to accomplish this is to setup an automatic…

Protecting Your Privacy With a Virtual Machine While Using Zoom

With the COVID-19 outbreak keeping…

Securing Services with Tor and alt-svc

Some people called for me to write a more technically detailed/in-depth guide to setting up Tor with alt-svc after we set it up on privacytools.io, so while I do it all over again on our Mastodon server, I figured I’d write this post! Plus, it’ll make it easier…

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

Creating your own “threat…

Firefox Privacy: A Guide to Better Browsing

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers around, and for good reason…

Welcome to Privacy Guides

The team formerly known as PrivacyTools welcomes you to join a new community…