Digital freedom

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6 mins

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.
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4 mins

How to survive an internet shutdown

With internet freedoms on the decline and internet shutdowns on the rise, read this guide on how to survive political internet blackouts.
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3 mins

Free cyber safety resources for kids

It's Safer Internet Day! We’ve compiled free resources for kids to learn about topics like cybersecurity, fake news, cyberbullying, and strangers on the internet.
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3 mins

Splinternet: From one internet to multiple webs

The internet was meant to be universal, but countries are changing that by subjecting it to their own laws.
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5 mins

Working remotely? You can live in these countries on remote-work visas

If your company lets you work anywhere, consider a change of scenery by moving to a country that issues visas for digital nomads.
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2 mins

Countries with SIM-card registration laws

What is SIM-card registration? Find out what countries require ID and biometrics if you buy a prepaid SIM card.
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2 mins

OONI, an app that measures how much of your internet is censored

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.
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5 mins

What does a VPN hide?

From your location data to your IP address, VPNs obfuscate several things to help you stay private and increase your anonymity online.
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3 mins

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.
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7 mins

Upgrading Bitcoin, Part 1: The pitfalls of hard forks and soft forks

The Bitcoin network relies on strong consensus rules. These can be upgraded through forks, but it isn’t always easy.

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