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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-28 at 23:45

@emilyyoung Hey @emilyyoung !

I just saw your latest video and is must say that its been a while since ive seen such a candid and honest story, thank you for sharing it with us.

I wish you all the best in your future endeavours and if you ever need some help with stuff on the privacy/security side, be sure to reach out and I will be glad to help you out.

For now I would like everyone to drop by her channel and maybe consider subscribering to show her some support :).

https://youtube.com/@emily-young

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-24 at 20:12

Our latest video just dropped!

Our new content creator @jw did an outstanding job pointing out the dangers of using sms for both communication and 2fa!

Please boost and lets get the word out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BWXvn-rB4

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-24 at 09:36

https://gist.github.com/zachlatta/f86317493654b550c689dc6509973aa4

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-20 at 20:55

Oh lord.

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/bitlocker_screwed_without_a_screwdriver/

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-17 at 20:58

Today I am pleased to announce that we at @privacyguides have hired three talented individuals who will be helping our goal to provide education of the highest quality surrounding both privacy and security.

We will be joined by em ( @Em0nM4stodon ) , our new journalist.

Next is Jordan ( @jw ) our new content producer.

And last but not least our new intern kevin ( @kevpham )!

We are all free excited to work with you and on behalf of the team, welcome!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/17/privacy-guides-hires-three-staff-members/

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-17 at 19:53

Another day, another interesting user stat:

Someone visited our site using Sun OS☀

https://stats.triplebit.net/share/S80jBc50hxr5TquS/www.privacyguides.org?view=os

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-14 at 09:52

PSA: If you use any of the apps on the following list, your location data may have been sold by location data broker Gravy, and you should remove those apps right now:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ukgd0gIWd9gpV6bOx2pcSHsVO6yIUqbjnlM4ewjO6Cs/htmlview#gid=1257088277

See: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/gravy-analytics-data-broker-breach-trove-of-location-data-threatens-privacy-millions/

Please boost to get this under more peoples attention.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2025-01-02 at 20:06

I love it when the sky becomes so clear when its cold outside. Was able to take a pretty picture tonight :).

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-10 at 13:11

Cool, we hit over 1 million page views last month🔥

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-06 at 21:53

Ever wanted to know how fingerprinting on the web works and how to prevent it?

@thenewoil just published a very neat explainer about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMCcpV2c4K4

Highly recommended.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 12:45

Okay last one I promise:

Security.org, their big affiliate farm, claims to exist since 1995. If you look at archive.org, you can see that while that domain has existed since atleast 1996, it has only been under their control since end 2018.

Edit: it goes a bit deeper, security.org seems to have partially began as securitybarron.com, of which the earliest mention I can find is 2016.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 12:01

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

"Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders"

• proceeds to layoff the entire activism department*

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 11:10

They seem to be all owned by Centerfield.com

Security.org is listed there, but vpnsociety.com is not.

But check this out:

Compare the text on both https://vpnsociety.com/ethics-statement-editorial-policy/

And https://www.security.org/editorial-guidelines/

Under the AI section, its basically the same, only some words have been shuffled around.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 10:43

Bonus: we know its reliable: it was founded by the famous security expert "Mr. X". 😭 you can't make this stuff up.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 10:33

The fun part: it does not seem to be completely launched yet, they have links with top 10 vpns and top 10 antivirus and a latest news section, but it is all empty.

Its quite obvious they keep building more sites and brands with copy pasted content filled with affiliate links, while posing like they have been a long established organisation thats respected by the industry.

In my opinion, it just breaks trust of the consumer it borderlines on a scam.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 10:15

Gotta love it when Vpn "review" site are such obvious affiliate farms.

Just stumbled upon a new one "vpnsociety.com"

The about us page claims that they have existed since 2020, but the domain was registered about three weeks ago, and their socials have basically zero followers.

They seem to have a link with security.org, another affiliate link farm. They seem to just use a template of buzzwords to create new sites on the fly, posing as a "leader in the field".

Quite scummy if you ask me.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-04 at 21:40

How far up your own ass do you have to be to consider the ACLU as bad organization😑

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-11-25 at 10:13

Gotta love corporate VPN blog posts.

"Best private browser for android: Google Chrome.

Con: tracks a lot of data."

Who even writes this garbage😭

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-11-23 at 15:51

I am looking for thoughts on the following discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/what-does-privacy-guides-see-as-opensource/20230/49

A lot of software on our site has an open source requirement. The issue is that we have never properly defined what open source means, as it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people!

Please boost so we can get some more eyes on this. :)

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-11-19 at 13:53

@mullvadnet I am interested in the change where you removed the security level button as it makes you more fingerprintable.

How does Mullvad Browser situation defer from Tor browsers situation, where the threatmodel of Tor browser is arguably higher, but is apparently less concerned about the fingerprintability of the security levels?

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