Jonah Aragon

Advertisements aren’t just annoying, they are one of the most prevalent attack vectors on the internet. Minimizing the amount of content you are downloading and running makes you much safer, and it speeds up your browsing at the same time! 😄

There's a lot going on in the United States. If you plan to exercise your legal right to protest, we kindly remind you to not RSVP online, "check in" on a social app, or share your name or email with protest organizers.

Why I don't like Louis Rossmann's new cell carrier YouTube video by Jonah Aragon

Why I don't like Louis Rossmann's new cell carrier (Phreeli)
youtu.be/zLOXsFmLayw

Ghosts in the Machine: The Fight for Privacy After Death In the early hours of 6 June 2020, Nicole Smallman and her sister Bibaa Henry had just finished celebrating Bibaa’s birthday with friends in a park in London. Alone and in the dark, they were both fat...

Welcoming @peter-marsden.co.uk's first contribution, "Ghosts in the Machine: The Fight for Privacy After Death" takes a look at how even the best privacy laws around the world fail to protect those in death. This is a call to arms for posthumous privacy rights.

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The Tor Project is looking for more WebTunnel bridges to be distributed to Russian users via Telegram (info: forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays...)

I'm hosting some, and if you can run a web server you can too:

The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security Your phone is an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. Understanding these best practices when it comes to securing your smartphone will help keep you and yo...

Smartphones can be an essential tool for protestors fighting for their rights, but they also make you vulnerable to the mass surveillance many protests are targeted with. If you're taking part in the action, make sure you minimize your risk: www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

An ad on X saying “enough ads today?” The ad image below is split in half horizontally. The top half shows a billboard with blue skies on it with a blue background. The bottom half shows a “Go ad-free on X Premium+” button on a black background.

Yeah X, those seem like two perfectly good solutions to this problem!

A box filled with Raspberry Pi compute modules and Compute Blade components from Uptime Industries

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Is Your Data Really Safe? Understanding Encryption YouTube video by Privacy Guides

Encryption is a cornerstone of security on the modern internet. In this video we dive into how it works and explain why it's so important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQV...

inb4 @bsky.app doesn't let our organization become a trusted verifier to verify our team members lol

The Protesters' Guide To Smartphone Security Zine : Jonah Aragon (text); Firestorm Books (layout) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A 16 page zine created from text by Jonah Aragon, Project Director of Privacy Guides (privacyguides.org).For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your...

Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of people will hit the streets in the US for the first time since the effective collapse of the constitutional republic. With so many new folks marching, rallying, and taking action, there’s a growing need to disseminate information on keeping ourselves & others safe.

Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day. These privacy-centric recommendations come from a variety of Europ...

🇪🇺 While we tend to focus on technical matters over jurisdiction, the US doesn’t have a monopoly on the best tech.

Nowadays many people are looking for solutions outside the US, so we’ve compiled a list of our recommendations that are based in Europe: www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

Interview with Micah Lee: Cyd, Lockdown Systems, OnionShare, and more This article is an interview with Micah Lee, the creator of Cyd and OnionShare, founder of Lockdown Systems, and author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data.

If you don't know who Micah Lee is, you should read this article. And if you do know who Micah Lee is, you should definitely read this article 😎

We spoke with Lee about what he's working on currently with Cyd, Lockdown Systems, OnionShare, and more! www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

The Dangers of End-to-End Encryption Privacy Guides is formally taking a stand against dangerous and frightening technologies.

Privacy Guides is officially taking a stand against dangerous and frightening technologies. www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

Privacy Means Safety Privacy is a human right that should be granted to everyone, no matter the reason. That being said, it's also important to remember that for millions of people around the world, data privacy is crucia...

Privacy is a human right that should be granted to everyone, no matter the reason. But for millions of people around the world, data privacy is also crucial for their physical safety. For people in extreme situations, privacy can literally mean life or death. www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day. These privacy-centric recommendations come from a variety of Europ...

📄 My latest @privacyguides.org article highlights some of the many privacy-respecting, European tools that can replace the tech you use every day: www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

KeePassXC + YubiKey: How to set up a local-only password manager This tutorial demonstrates how to install the local-only password manager KeePassXC and secure a password database with YubiKey.

KeePassXC is one of the best options for a local-only password manager. In our latest tutorial, we'll walk through setting up KeePassXC to work with your YubiKey as an additional factor to secure your local-only password database.

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Please Like Me It can be strange, sometimes, to be me. I’m the wealthiest man on the planet, for starters. Leaders across America, and indeed the world, look to me as a visionary driving technological progress in ar...

Please Like Me

Stop Confusing Privacy, Anonymity, and Security Are you mixing up privacy, security, and anonymity? Don't worry, it's more common than you might think! In this week's video we break down each term, so you can make educated decisions on what tools a...

📹 Our latest video is now live! This week we discuss the difference between privacy & anonymity, two often confused terms, so that you can make informed decisions about the privacy tools you choose to use.

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It isn't the time to act smug or superior just because that censorship happened to target an app you disliked today. They will have no problems coming for the services you do like tomorrow.

This is not a win for privacy, this is a massive loss for all Americans as the country descends into the internet censorship that has plagued so many of the other unfree countries around the world.

#tiktok #privacy #censorship

Do You Need A VPN? Commercial Virtual Private Networks are a way of extending the end of your network to exit somewhere else in the world. This can have substantial privacy benefits, but not all VPNs are created equa...

We didn't like the VPN videos out there on the internet - so we made our own! Watch on PeerTube at the link below:

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Privacy Guides Hires Three Staff Members Privacy Guides is welcoming three new additions to the team.

There’s some exciting things coming your way from Privacy Guides! This week we’ve hired 3 people dedicated to creating informative and engaging privacy/security content, both in the written form and on video 🎥

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

He penetrated the top ranks of prominent right-wing militias & devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.

He was so successful, he became a militia’s top commander in Utah.

The latest must-read from @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @propublica.org

Didn't expect the defining image of 2025 to turn up quite so quickly.

Trying out YouTube without a Premium subscription today to see if I can save some money, and wow this app is practically unusable 😳

A bunch of peanut butter blossoms

Baking time 👨‍🍳

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are