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The best ways to secure your Bitcoins
Not only has Bitcoin’s value gone up over the past year, but the available options for Bitcoin storage have also increased. The choice can be especially intimidating for Bitcoin novices. No matter w...
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The facts about the OSTIF OpenVPN source code audit
This post was originally published on May 15, 2017. With funding from the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a group of security experts from QuarksLab spent the first few months of 2017...
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BVI jurisdiction: Why it matters
ExpressVPN is a BVI company: What is the BVI, and is it part of the ‘14 Eyes’ intelligence-sharing countries? The British Virgin Islands, while sharing the same monarch as Great Britain, are a sel...
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Meet OSTIF, the privacy advocates who make the internet safer by auditing its code
ExpressVPN talks to Derek Zimmer: President and CEO of the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), about his organization, the audit of OpenVPN, and the future of internet privacy tools. The ...
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Turning data into cash: The creepy side of Facebook's ad engine
With all the information people are swapping online these days, companies have become much better at pinpointing who to market to and when to do it. It comes as no surprise, then, to hear how Facebook...
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Trump signs new U.S. internet privacy legislation: Comcast reacts, but can you trust them?
NOTE: This post was originally published on April 10, 2017 Last week, ExpressVPN wrote about controversial U.S. Congress plans to allow ISPs to sell your private data for profit. To the dismay of priv...
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How a VPN router protects your whole family from internet tracking
This post was originally published on March 31, 2017. This week, the U.S. House of Representatives followed the Senate in voting to roll back FCC regulations that previously barred internet service pr...
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U.S. Congress votes to let ISPs sell your browsing data
On March 23rd, 2017, the U.S. Senate voted to remove internet privacy protections enacted by the FCC. Two days later, The House of Representatives followed suit. Once the President gives his signature...
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Your YouTube history exposed: Researcher identifies inherent security flaw in video streaming
This post was originally published on March 22, 2017. While researching how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) could optimize their services to improve users’ video-watching experiences, cyber-securi...
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The NSA versus the CIA: How to protect yourself from both
In 2013, Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency (NSA) has a global surveillance apparatus covering all our digital communications. Then, in 2017, Wikileaks released a trove of data from in...
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