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What are the Best .onion Sites & How to Access Them Safely in 2020. Put on your scuba mask because we’re about to dive way down into the deep web.

What are the Best .onion Sites & How to Access Them Safely in 2020

All of the websites we are about to discuss can only be accessed through Tor. Your regular browser won’t be able to open any links that end in.onion. If you’re not already familiar with.onion sites, don’t worry. We are going to walk you through everything you need to know to safely explore these hidden parts of the internet. Best.onion Sites – Quick Guide ProPublic ProPublic was the first major news organization to take a stand for online privacy and create a.onion version of their site. How to get a personal VPN and why you need one now — Quartz. Elon Musk is the most wholesome visionary our era has produced.

How to get a personal VPN and why you need one now — Quartz

He is a benign idealist; a guy with his eyes on a horizon beyond money. Money? Musk doesn’t care about that. He hopes only to elevate our minds, our bodies, and our roads to other planes. Businesses, says the man who has founded so many of them, don’t really exist. Musk comes across as a tech monk who sees money as a means only to a good end. UBI is a policy gift that Musk and so many others in the C-suites of Silicon Valley offer us as part of their vision of a sustainable economic future. UBI is just bedtime story that helps the super-wealthy sleep. Instead, let’s believe that he, and the rest of Silicon Valley’s elite, are ultimately acting in the public interest. Privacy for anyone anywhere.

Resist Surveillance. How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch. The more we learn about the breadth and depth of the NSA and GCHQ's programmes of spying on the general public, the more alarming it all becomes.

How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch

The most recent stories about the deliberate sabotage of security technology are the full stop at the end of a sentence that started on 8 August, when the founder of Lavabit (the privacy oriented email provider used by whistleblower Edward Snowden) abruptly shut down, with its founder, Ladar Levison, obliquely implying that he'd been ordered to secretly subvert his own system to compromise his users' privacy. Facebook privacy and kids: Don’t post photos of your kids online. Photo by Hemera/Thinkstock I vividly remember the Facebook post.

Facebook privacy and kids: Don’t post photos of your kids online

It was my friend’s 5-year-old daughter “Kate,” (a pseudonym) standing outside of her house in a bright yellow bikini, the street address clearly visible behind her on the front door. A caption read “Leaving for our annual Labor Day weekend at the beach,” and beneath it were more than 50 likes and comments from friends—including many “friends” that Kate’s mom barely knew. The picture had been uploaded to a Facebook album, and there were 114 shots just of Kate: freshly cleaned and swaddled on the day of her birth … giving her Labradoodle a kiss … playing on a swing set.

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Mailpile: Let’s take email back! Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program - PRISM Break. Heml.is - The Beautiful & Secure Messenger. Search DuckDuckGo. Hushmail – Free Email with Privacy. Collusion. About this Add-on Using interactive visualizations, Lightbeam enables you to see the first and third party sites you interact with on the Web.

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As you browse, Lightbeam reveals the full depth of the Web today, including parts that are not transparent to the average user. Using two distinct interactive graphic representations — Graph and List — Lightbeam enables you to examine individual third parties over time and space, identify where they connect to your online activity and provides ways for you to engage with this unique view of the Web. How Lightbeam WorksWhen you activate Lightbeam and visit a website, sometimes called the first party, the add-on creates a real time visualization of all the third parties that are active on that page. The default visualization is called the Graph view. How is my information stored? The origins of LightbeamLightbeam began in July 2011 as Collusion, a personal project by Mozilla software developer Atul Varma. 5 ways to easily increase your internet security - Seattle Political Buzz. In this age of technology nothing is private. In fact, NSA whistleblower William Binney recently stated that literally every email sent in the US is recorded by the FBI.

For those living in reality, it has been know that since the 90's under President Clinton, programs such as Echelon monitored nearly every phone call, fax, and email in the United States. Sites like Facebook have been known to record users web history even when they are logged out. Google has had to pay out millions for its privacy violations such as disabling privacy settings on Internet browsers to allow them to track you. Google Street View cars used to take pictures for Google Earth were caught stealing passwords and information from home computers it drove past. Good Internet security is not about "having something to hide. " Use Startpage! Most people are familiar with cookies, small pieces of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website.

Cryptocat. Startpage Search Engine. Tor Project: Anonymity Online.