Privacy

Privacy on the web: tracking, cookies, data handling and keeping the internet a little less hostile.

45 posts on Privacy.

2026-04

2026-04-27 Imposter: a single-phone party game, free and open source

2020-02

2020-02-27 I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices 👀

2019-12

2019-12-28 What exactly is being sent to Ubuntu in the MOTD?

2018-11

2018-11-22 Tracking SQL queries

2018-10

2018-10-17 The convincing Bitcoin scam e-mail extorting you

2017-10

2017-10-30 Staat der Nederlanden CA might be revoked from Mozilla Policy?

2017-07

2017-07-19 Podcast: The Ceremony, the birth of Zcash

2017-05

2017-05-08 Why the Next 10 Days Are Critical to the Internet’s Future
2017-05-04 NIST recommendation: remove periodic password change requirements

2017-04

2017-04-21 Canada Just Ruled to Uphold Net Neutrality

2017-01

2017-01-23 Return of the Unauthenticated, Unfirewalled protocols
2017-01-19 Create a SOCKS proxy on a Linux server with SSH to bypass content filters
2017-01-11 Staying Safe Online – A short guide for non-technical people

2016-10

2016-10-23 Pi-Hole: A DNS-based blacklist for ads and tracking for Raspberry Pi

2015-10

2015-10-21 Firefox Nightly starts marking login-forms in HTTP as insecure

2015-06

2015-06-15 uBlock Origin Now Blocking Access To SourceForge

2015-05

2015-05-17 The Scary Revelation: The Advertising Options On Facebook & Twitter
2015-05-14 Microsoft Remotely Locking Xbox One’s
2015-05-06 uBlock Origin
2015-05-05 French Law Forces Backdoors On ISPs

2015-04

2015-04-05 The Irony of Random Passwords For Each Service
2015-04-02 Google’s War on China

2015-03

2015-03-23 When Private Browsing Isn’t Private On iOS: HTML5 And AirPlay
2015-03-06 Bundling Software Installs With Adware

2015-02

2015-02-19 Tearing Down Lenovo’s Superfish Statement
2015-02-05 FCC: Net Neutrality in the United States

2015-01

2015-01-30 Running a Tor relay: lessons learned

2014-03

2014-03-23 What if you are the network admin tasked with blocking IPs in Turkey?

2012-06

2012-06-18 The insanity of URL shorteners and tracking

2012-03

2012-03-22 What are the ‘encrypted_search_terms’ hits on your website/wordpress blog?

2011-04

2011-04-03 WikiLeaks Mirror Hosting Page now offline

2011-03

2011-03-30 How is facebook tracking our (outgoing) URLs?

2011-01

2011-01-15 Net Neutrality: The real internet backbone

2010-12

2010-12-06 WikiLeaks’ mirrors: where are they hosted?

2009-09

2009-09-19 MetaData: I’ll Bet You Thought That Was Private?

2009-04

2009-04-20 What The Pirate Bay’s Guilty Verdict Really Means

2008-10

2008-10-17 Australia To Become The New China – Internet Censorship

2008-09

2008-09-23 ISP: It’s Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P
2008-09-04 Google’s Chrome EULA Altered – Less Evilness
2008-09-02 Google Chrome And Its End-User License Agreement (EULA)

2008-08

2008-08-13 Is Your GMail Notifier Suddenly Broken?

2008-07

2008-07-09 Keeping control of airline passengers
2008-07-03 How not to sue a BitTorrent tracker (TPB)

2008-06

2008-06-05 Germany to invade your home (computer)
2008-06-01 Yarr!