It has long been considered a conspiracy theory that we are headed for carbon passports. This is basically technology that tracks much of what we do, purchase and consume to form a carbon credit score. It is not mere conspiracy theory as various variants are being seriously proposed. How Carbon Passports, Social Credit, and a […]
Basic Technology Passkeys have their basis in a good idea. It is a good idea at the heart of much of modern encryption – asymmetric encryption or, as it is often called, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). In this type of encryption there is a pair of keys. One key is public and everyone can know
Danger of Unique Identifiers As we have seen, the collection of data about all of us adds to a graph of information whose central nodes are, at worse, unique identifiers pointing straight to our person. Those identifiers are generally of some common types: The strategy here is twofold. First do not use or share the
What can be done and how difficult is it? This is the core question. The answer is that quite a bit can be done that is not very hard. Of course it is up to each person to decide how much effort to invest for how much gain. Taking even a few of these measures
There are some privacy community voices that point out that email contents is not secure except between users of an E2EE service or when PGP (GPG) is used. They further say that since this is true there is no real point in E2EE email providers. Here we explore what is and is not true with
Privacy represents more than just wanting to keep personal information secret or hidden from others. It epitomizes a fundamental human right that is essential for individual liberty in any free society. When privacy erodes, it threatens people’s intrinsic abilities to freely think, develop ideas, and determine how they want to live their own lives. In
Good signup and login credential are of utmost importance for privacy and security. According to NordPass, the most common passwords in 2022 were: Many people use the names of family members or a pet. Perhaps they spice it up a bit with some l33t replacement of some letters with numbers. Maybe they even are
Many people will say they have nothing to hide. Perhaps this and other variations below are in no small part because practicing privacy seems like too much hassle. In these posts I will show that it need not be difficult. If you believe you have nothing to hide please answer the following questions. Do you