Michal Kodnar

Choosing a VPN

A VPN, aka Virtual Private Network, is a tool that allows users to securely access the internet and protect their personal information. It creates a secure, encrypted “tunnel” between the user’s device and the Internet through which all Internet traffic flows. VPNs are necessary for everyone’s privacy because they help protect us from a number […]

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From fasting to longevity I. – the trials and tribulations of caloric restriction

Hunger, or fasting. For many people, even a conversation about this topic is something so scary that they automatically develop a grandmother complex and start telling you that you have to stop thinking about “losing weight” and that you should eat regularly. But is it really so? In this two-part series, we’ll look at the

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The Wall Against Big Brother II. – Browser Extensions

In the last episode of The Wall Against Big Brother, we explained how browser fingerprinting, cookies, local/sessionStorage, and other tracking tricks that lurk on the Internet work. In this section, however, we’ll focus on protecting our privacy. Specifically, with the help of browser extensions. To disable or not to disable JavaScript is a very crucial

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The Wall Against Big Brother I. – Cookies are retro

In my article on clients and replacements for classic social networks, we mentioned something about how encryption is far from the only guarantor of self-defense against Big Brother. This time, we’ll also look at security and protecting our privacy, but from a slightly different perspective. We’ll explain how you can protect yourself from Big Brother

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Signal vs Telegram

In the last article about encrypted communication and clients for big brother apps, we explained what the network effect is, what privacy actually is, and all the different ways we can look at it. We also outlined why, from a security and privacy perspective, I don’t consider Telegram to be as good a technology as

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You have nothing to hide: Replacing Telegram, Twitter & YouTube

Young people use Discord and enjoy networking in the communities there. Russians and Yankees use Telegram massively and replicate their memebionts across the world. Elon Musk is constantly producing buzz about Twitter. And so on. There are debates about some kind of “privacy” and “security” around it as well as how many people are using

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