Avast Antivirus will harvest & sell everything you do on the Web including the specific porn videos you watched.
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Avast Antivirus will harvest & sell everything you do on the Web including the specific porn videos you watched.

A new report by Vice/Motherboard has revealed how much data Avast will collect on you if you opt-in on their data collection services. This is a perfect example of the privacy concerns we face in the modern era, and why freeware can be so bad. Avast is used by hundreds of millions of people around…

A Guide to Internet Security and Privacy Basics

A Guide to Internet Security and Privacy Basics

The internet, computers and mobile phones have been some of the greatest technological achievements of mankind. With all the advantages these pieces of tech bring us, numerous problems have arisen. In the past few years, there appears to have been exponential growth in hacking and privacy concerns. Typing privacy into BBC news shows that this…

Raspberry Pi 3 Project: Create an adblocking server for your home server with Pi-hole
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Raspberry Pi 3 Project: Create an adblocking server for your home server with Pi-hole

After being impressed with the ad blocking functionality of my F-Secure Sense I came across a popular piece of software called Pi-hole that acts as your homes DNS server and blocks advertising requests. It is designed to run on most Debian-based distro’s and it is specifically lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi, some…