While a lot of Australians considered a virtual private network as “the way to get Netflix,” there’s a lot more to VPNs than that. In fact, there’s a host of reasons while you might consider paying for a VPN service. VPN use in Australia has skyrocketed in the wake of mandatory data retention laws and …
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Now playing: Watch this: Blackphone security-conscious smartphone gets a sequel 1:17 BARCELONA — A year after debuting its first Blackphone, startup Silent Circle announced a second-generation secure-phone successor along with a tablet and broader ambition to protect customers’ privacy. The Blackphone 2 will bring the usual upgrades — a faster processor, more memory, better battery life and a bigger display …
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Newly approved web standard promises faster page loads. A new version of the HTTP standard that promises to deliver Web pages to browsers faster has been formally approved, the Internet protocol’s first revision in 16 years. The specifications for HTTP 2.0 have been formally approved, according to a blog post by Mark Nottingham, who as chairman of the IETF HTTPBIS …
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Let’s start with the why. The reason why you should use a password manager is twofold: it makes your online life more secure — and easier in the process. A password manager stores the passwords for your various online accounts and profiles and saves you from having to remember and enter each one each time you visit a password-protected site. …
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The US National Security Agency is one organization that benefits from being able to read unencrypted Web traffic. NSA A tech-industry alliance announced a move Tuesday to help make privacy on the Web the rule rather than the exception. Web privacy comes through encrypted connections that scramble data sent across a network between servers that house a Web page or …
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