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Victoria Drake Set up a Pi-hole VPN on an AWS Lightsail instance
Build your own VPN with Pi-hole to block ads and trackers.

privacy 7 min read 2021-10-07 11:01:13 +0000 UTC
Victoria Drake There are better options for a privacy-respecting phone
Meet the new, better Apple. Here's how to choose your phone and set it up.

privacy 8 min read 2021-08-11 11:37:35 +0000 UTC
Victoria Drake Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communications
How you can make your digital life more resilient when using services you don't own.

privacy 5 min read 2021-02-22 04:00:43 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server
A speed-run introduction to Matrix via Dendrite.

privacy 6 min read 2021-02-15 01:38:07 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake So you're the family tech support
Privacy and online security to-dos for the home-for-the-holidays tech support hero.

privacy 2 min read 2020-12-21 08:42:24 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Outsourcing security with 1Password, Authy, and Privacy.com
Take some work off your plate while beefing up security with three changes you can make today.

cybersecurity 5 min read 2020-03-16 08:12:32 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake Three healthy cybersecurity habits
Three helpful cybersecurity new year resolutions. Happy holidays!

cybersecurity 4 min read 2019-12-26 08:27:31 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake The care and feeding of an IoT device
Why IoT devices are, basically, puppies, and whether or not you should give somebody one for Christmas.

cybersecurity 4 min read 2019-11-27 08:59:35 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposure
Why sensitive data controls need to be established long before you think you need them, as demonstrated by Google dorking.

cybersecurity 8 min read 2019-09-09 09:10:11 -0400 -0400