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Is internet privacy a lost cause?
Most people think of privacy as a fundamental right. The right to have a personal conversation without someone listening, the right to keep your belongings out of public view. ExpressVPN believes that...
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Am I being spied on? Here's how you might be
Are you being spied on online? The short answer is: probably. This post will take a look at the key ways third parties could be snooping on your online activities right now. Government surveillance Yo...
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Swedes are inserting tiny microchips under their skin
Fed up with carrying cumbersome keychains and bulky wallets? Why not copy a growing number of Swedes and implant tiny microchips into your fingers? Instead of searching into the depths of your pockets...
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ExpressVPN’s Cyber Security GIF-away: All the winners!
This post was originally published on October 24, 2018. You tweeted, liked, and retweeted, and the results for this year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) contest are in! Thank you t...
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How to properly dispose of your hard drives
Data is valuable. Your pictures, legal documents, chat logs, and even saved video games are all things you wouldn't want to be public. Today, people generally go to great lengths to protect data, but ...
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Headed to New Zealand? Prepare to unlock your phone at Customs
NOTE: This post was originally published on October 16, 2018 Something fishy’s brewing down under—and it’s not just fish and chips. This month New Zealand introduced a highly invasive data law t...
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ExpressVPN launches “Signals of Trustworthy VPNs” with CDT
NOTE: This post was originally published on October 16, 2018 Crunchy? Extra creamy? Reduced fat? Old-fashioned, whatever that means? We’ve all had that feeling of being overwhelmed by choice when sh...
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Why encryption is vital in free societies
In 2011, the United Nations declared internet access a universal human right. That was a necessary step forward for digital freedom, but it’s far from sufficient—it needs to add encryption to the ...
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Facial swapping software is now open-source
Developed by experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NVIDIA, vid2vid technology allows anybody to swap the surface images of objects in a video. Most of us know this kind of video-t...
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The art of social engineering: Are you being conditioned?
As we get better at securing our computer systems, we are discovering that the weakest line of defense is, in fact, the human being. Social engineering is the dark art of manipulating people. Social h...
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