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The paranoid person’s guide to online privacy

Increasingly, the most important issue for everyday internet users is privacy.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90316917/the-paranoid-persons-guide-to-online-privacy

Venezuela turns to virtual currency amid inflation

People in Venezuela are turning to virtual currency to pay for food and other necessities as political turmoil sends the South American nation deeper into crisis.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190316_12/

Here’s a way to get past India’s rising internet firewall

Indian internet users are increasingly looking for legal and safe ways to get around the country’s tightening digital censorship regime, worsened by overzealous internet service providers (ISPs).

https://qz.com/india/1572570/tor-can-help-indians-access-porn-reddit-other-blocked-websites/

Online Spyware Classification Project

The goal of this website is to classify spyware programs, so that users can be aware that they are installing spyware.

https://spyware.neocities.org

Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups

What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out?

https://thehackernews.com/2019/02/vfemail-cyber-attack.html?m=1

have i been pwned?

Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.

https://haveibeenpwned.com

How the US Government took control of the Internet

The Hacker Crackdown – an 18-month long collaborative effort of the United States Secret Service and broken-up AT&T to take control of the Internet in the early 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFwTabn9_S0

Scammer used YouTube copyright system to ransom creators

By submitting fake copyright “flags” a scammer demanded hundreds of dollars via Paypal or Bitcoin and even managed to get past YouTube’s anti-abuse team.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evevdk/scammer-used-youtube-copyright-system-to-ransom-creators