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3 cryptocurrencies that care about your privacy
Bitcoin is not perfectly anonymous. While it's true that you don’t have to connect your real name or phone number to a Bitcoin transaction, there are multiple ways to de-anonymize your account. Ever...
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6 features we actually want on our iPhones
This article was originally published on October 27, 2017. New phones are exciting. They bring new features, make existing features more powerful and get us excited about spending half a month’s wag...
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Announcing the 2017 ExpressVPN Future of Privacy Scholarship Winner
NOTE: This post was originally published on October 18, 2017 In its second year, the ExpressVPN Future of Privacy Scholarship was a huge success. Nearly 2,000 students in the U.S. and UK submitted es...
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ExpressVPN: Better Privacy and Security with Industry-Leading DNS Leak Protection
This post was originally published on October 12, 2017. Sometimes a VPN can fail to protect your device’s DNS (Domain Name System) queries even when the rest of your traffic is protected by the VPN ...
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Is Bitcoin traceable? Privacy risks & how to stay anonymous
Think Bitcoin is untraceable? Think again. Every Bitcoin transaction leaves a digital footprint. Investigators, hackers, and even governments can track your Bitcoin transaction history—sometimes all...
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The evolution of encryption and why governments hate it
Long before governments started fighting to outlaw encryption, politicians from around the world were turning to secret codes to communicate with one another. From Julius Caesar’s cipher to Thomas J...
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Meet the five students fighting for the future of Dutch digital privacy
UPDATE: Wednesday October 11, 2017 Meet the five students who fought for the future of Dutch digital privacy... And won! They did it! The students behind the Sleepwet petition surpassed 300,000 signat...
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That’s so blasé: A quick guide on how NOT to expose other people’s privacy online
Whether it’s your old high school friend sharing your Facebook details to level up on Candy Crush or someone willingly forking over their email contacts so they can get a free month of Tidal, there...
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Did Russia really ban VPNs?
NOTE: This post was originally published on August 2, 2017 You may have seen the dramatic headlines in recent days claiming that “Russia is banning VPNs too” and drawing parallels to Apple’s rec...
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Dystopian data: How my ISP got me blacklisted from my dream school
NOTE: This post was originally published on July 26, 2017 The following is part of a fictitious series that looks at the dangers of internet privacy abuse. ExpressVPN delves into a dark, but very real...
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