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Governments and regimes across the globe use censorship as a tool to control the flow of information. This article highlights how one can use VPN to access blocked websites. If your country censors the internet and blocks sites like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube then a VPN is what you need. When a user visits a […]
VPN Report 2019 reveals a 54% growth rate. Over the years, we’ve seen the global populace move towards more security consciousness. This has been reflected among the increased scrutiny of social media platforms and other entities which in any way hold access to our data. As such, it is only natural that with the recently […]
The research particularly names India, China, and Kazakhstan for using Internet censorship as a tool to curb freedom of expression and how the new AI tool can help people in these countries to evade censorship. Internet censorship, basically, is a very effective strategy used by dictatorial governments to limit access to information available online for […]
Google and Facebook are ultra-successful giants in their respective fields. Facebook has over 2.3 billion monthly active users and Google has around 2 billion. The search engine helps millions of people connect with businesses and interact with them. Facebook helps people around the world connect by letting them make profiles, post pictures, and videos, create […]
While we take internet access for granted, there are several regions in the world where people have little or censored access to the internet. The Tor project has always put in efforts to defeat censorship on the internet. Taking this motto one step forward, the Tor project has released a new browser extension called ‘Snowflake.’ People […]
Is Internet filtering at the state level good or bad? As always, there are different opinions. I do not want to give a definite answer to this question now. On the one hand, the degree of filtering and the profile of filtering can be different, on the other hand, partly the answer to this question […]
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is advocating for the company’s plan to build a censored search engine for China, codenamed as ‘Project Dragonfly.’ In an interview with the BBC, Schmidt confirmed that he was never part of the decision to build a censored version of Google in China. And even though Google has put […]
Restrictions and bans over websites are always annoying, and governments are now censoring content more than ever. Moreover, if you also feel stifled by the blocked websites in your office or school, here are some ways to access blocked websites. While these filters in schools and offices serve some purpose, they are often misused by […]
Another day, another court order against The Pirate Bay (TPB). This time, the Patent and Market Court of Sweden has ordered the telephone company and mobile network operator Telia to block The Pirate Bay and other torrenting websites including NyaFilmer, FMovies, and Dreamfilm in the country. According to TorrentFreak, the interim order came after a complaint filed by a […]
Looking for a free VPN service? Look no further, believe it or not, Pornhub has got your back. In the world of online censorship, it is difficult to get your hands on a reliable free VPN service without compromising your privacy or getting your data sold to third-party advertisers. But now, there is a solution from a […]
On May 10th, 2018, the online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) by hacking and defacing its subdomain against the ongoing censorship in the country especially the recent ban on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. If you are not familiar with the situation in Russia, […]
On May 3rd, 2018, Russia’s media and communication regularity authority Roskomnadzor blocked over 50 virtual private networks (VPNs), Web Proxies and Anonymizers in the country amid its crackdown against the Telegram messaging service. So far, there has been no official announcement from Roskomnadzor but the Russian News Agency TASS has confirmed the censorship and reported that the decision affects those services […]
Earlier this week, it was reported that in 2015 the social media giant Facebook provided access to 50 million of its user’s profiles to a UK based data analysis and data mining firm Cambridge Analytica (CA). Since the news broke, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are being accused of illegally harvesting and using the Facebook users’ data to […]
Sandvine Products and Technology Used by Egypt, Turkey, and Syrian Governments to Install Spyware and Monero Mining. A Canadian security and human rights research group Citizen Lab has discovered that Turkey, Egypt, and Syrian governments are involved in the hijacking of local internet connections for the purpose of injecting surveillance malware. Moreover, Citizen Lab, run by […]
The world-renowned encrypted email service provider ProtonMail is back in the news for yet another good reason. The Switzerland based firm has announced the launching of “the world’s first encrypted contacts manager” called ProtonMail Contacts which works with ProtonMail’s email system and aims at protecting user data. The contact manager equipped with two highly sophisticated features including zero-access encryption […]
OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in the world. “The Net interprets censorship as damage and […]
Andrew Anglin, the administrator of the neo-nazi website DailyStormer, has no chill since he keeps on trying to make a comeback with his website on the regular web. Recently, the site successfully came online with a .at domain using the services of Austrian domain registrar (nic.at). But it took a few days for the company to boot off […]
In July this year, it was reported that Apple had removed all major VPN apps from Chinese App Store on the request of the government. Now reports are that Deng Jiewei from Guangdong province has been charged with illegally selling virtual private network (VPN) software – He will serve nine months in prison. Jiewei who worked along with a […]
There are several websites allowing users to download YouTube videos such as odownloader but in 2016, Youtube-mp3.org (YTMP3), a popular YouTube-ripping site was taken to court by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with intentions to see the site burn forever and pay a sum of $150,000 (€126,172) for each copyright infringement. Now, it has […]
After DailyStormer, another Leading White-Supremacist Website Stormfront Taken Down For Good. Believe it or not, the oldest and insanely popular of all white supremacist websites Stormfront has gone offline since Friday, and its domain status is Under Hold. The site was taken down but the site’s host Network Solutions, which was hosting it since 1995. […]
It looks like there is no place for DailyStormer on the regular web whatsoever. On August 24th (Thursday), DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar suffered a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks affecting its servers causing connectivity issues. The attack affected company’s customer support, web and email services forcing a number of websites to […]