Age verification laws are breaking online anonymity for everyone
Age checks are spreading faster than the technology to verify age safely, and the current laws are turning the open web into a worse place for everyone. Not just kids. I have…
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OpenVPN Access Server: bridging home lab to AWS, no duct tape
I run a small lab in my office that talks to a few EC2 instances in eu-west-1, and until last month the connection was a constant source of friction. SSH keys scp’d…
Bitwarden self-host lands on AWS and Azure Marketplaces
Bitwarden is now listed in the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace, which means a working Bitwarden self-host server is about fifteen minutes away from a single marketplace listing click. The deployment is…
Age verification for social media is the first step toward a logged-in web
Age verification for social media (a system that requires users to prove their age, usually through government ID, biometric scans, or third-party age-estimation services, before they can create an account) is spreading…
My smart TV has never touched Wi-Fi, and I still stream everything
I have not connected my smart TV to my home network in three years. I do not mean I sometimes forget. I mean the TV has never had the Wi-Fi password typed…
Incognito doesn’t hide you, and the one that does costs you
Incognito windows are a false sense of security. Your ISP can still see what you am doing, and the websites you visit still fingerprint your browser. Incognito clears your local history. That…
Brave’s Shred button lands on Android, and trackers hate it
I have run the same experiment on three different Android browsers over the last six months, and the result is always the same. I open a news site, read three articles, get…
2026 World Cup without cable: where the free streams actually live
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 11 and runs through July 19. Group stage matches run through the 27th, then knockout matches start June 28, quarterfinals and semifinals follow,…
I caught the stock camera phoning home, so I ditched it
I used to think the camera app that came preinstalled on my Android phone was fine. It took photos, recorded video, and had a button that looked like a shutter. What more…
That mysterious Secure Boot folder, and why you must not delete it
I noticed a new folder in File Explorer last week called Secure Boot and I almost deleted it. It appeared after a routine cumulative update (a single patch that bundles security fixes,…