Lexie

Lexie

Lexie is the blog's resident tech expert and gets excited about empowerment through technology, space travel, and pancakes with blueberries.

  • Why more apps should integrate Tor

    Why more apps should integrate Tor

    Tor is most known for its anonymous browser. The Tor browser is built on Firefox and customized to defend against the most common forms of tracking as well as malicious code on the sites you visit. Al...

    Lexie 16.12.2020 3 mins
  • Download Android apps anonymously via the Aurora Store

    Download Android apps anonymously via the Aurora Store

    Editor’s note: This is part of our series on alternatives to Big Tech. Read our posts on installing LineageOS on your phone and downloading apps for it from F-Droid. We previously detailed our exper...

    Lexie 02.12.2020 2 mins
  • Lightning Network: A better way to pay with Bitcoin

    Lightning Network: A better way to pay with Bitcoin

    The Lightning Network has been highly anticipated by Bitcoin enthusiasts for years. As a separate network it promises to make Bitcoin payments faster and cheaper while not compromising the security of...

    Lexie 30.11.2020 8 mins
  • Installing apps on LineageOS for greater privacy

    Installing apps on LineageOS for greater privacy

    Editor’s note: This is part of our series on alternatives to Big Tech. Read our previous post on installing LineageOS, and learn about getting Android apps from the Aurora Store. Previously we insta...

    Lexie 20.11.2020 4 mins
  • How to turn off browsing history

    How to turn off browsing history

    Your browsing history is a record of all the sites you have visited. This history can also include which email addresses you’ve used to log in to your accounts and what information you’ve filled i...

    Lexie 23.10.2020 4 mins
  • What is metadata and what does it mean?

    What is metadata and what does it mean?

    In the context of privacy, we often talk about metadata as a weak link. While data can be easy to hide and encrypt, metadata is often far more difficult to conceal. Metadata is data about data. For ex...

    Lexie 19.10.2020 4 mins
  • Quick biography: Chelsea Manning

    Quick biography: Chelsea Manning

    Chelsea Manning’s disclosure of hundreds of thousands of confidential military and U.S. state documents resulted in a 35-year prison sentence. Yet without her whistleblowing, the world might never h...

    Lexie 13.10.2020 5 mins
  • Quick biography: Julian Assange

    Quick biography: Julian Assange

    In 2006, Australian computer programmer Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks, the website that would eventually gain worldwide fame in 2010 for publishing Chelsea Manning’s leaked Afghan and Iraq war fi...

    Lexie 13.10.2020 3 mins
  • Quick biography: Edward Snowden

    Quick biography: Edward Snowden

    In 2013, Edward Snowden and his hard drive full of classified NSA documents boarded a plane and changed forever how we understood privacy. His actions forced the world to reckon with the realities of ...

    Lexie 12.10.2020 3 mins
  • 3 lesser-known online privacy tools you should start using

    3 lesser-known online privacy tools you should start using

    ExpressVPN recently surveyed 3,000 users and non-users of VPN tools in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Online privacy topics are high on the list of concerns, and respondents genera...

    Lexie 25.09.2020 3 mins
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