Tech safety for survivors of domestic violence
Take steps to assert your digital autonomy, prevent stalking, and regain control over your communications and information.
The essential crypto glossary: Blockchain terminology explained
Bitcoin is big, but many of us don't understand it. This crypto cheat sheet contains all the terms you need to hold your own.
How to set up and use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Learn how to use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) to encrypts files, emails, text, and even disks.
We’re at the dawn of medical surveillance
As a consequence of Covid-19, our medical data is at risk of becoming a cornerstone of the surveillance state.
All in your head: Creating a Bitcoin ‘brainwallet’ with Diceware
Learn how to generate a list of random, secure words to store Bitcoin in your brain. Lexie says it’s as easy as rolling dice!
Bitcoin paper wallets: Taking your Bitcoin security offline
One way to safeguard your cryptocurrency is to generate a paper wallet—a private key written and stored on physical paper.
OONI, an app that measures how much of your internet is...
OONI is a tool from the Tor Project that lets everyone join the effort to map online censorship worldwide. Here is how you can help.
Tor outage: How a major attack felled the onion network
The Tor Network suffered a serious outage this month. We look at why Tor is not entirely decentralized, and how this affects its security.
Upgrading Bitcoin, Part 2: A challenging process
It takes time for an idea to turn into code, and that code to be deployed on the Bitcoin network. Here is how this process works.
Upgrading Bitcoin, Part 1: The pitfalls of hard forks and soft...
The Bitcoin network relies on strong consensus rules. These can be upgraded through forks, but it isn’t always easy.