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Articles and tutorials about protecting your privacy. How to share less personal data, how to protect vital information about yourself and the devices you’re using.

Security for everyone - Reviewing ExpressVPN 6 for Windows

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  • Radu Tyrsina
If you generally care about your privacy and the protection of your information, then you should also care about your digital life. Nowadays we store an increasing amount of data digitally, and we're sure that you wouldn't like any of that to be compromised. It is well known that you should protect your computers and devices against malware, but what about the security of your online connections and web browsing
tutorial How to learn what data Microsoft stores about you and how to delete it

How to learn what data Microsoft stores about you and how to delete it

Microsoft has created a portal where anyone with a Microsoft account can view all the personal data that it is stored by this company on their servers. You can see the browsing history that Microsoft has about you, your search history, your location history, the data stored by Cortana in her notebook and your Microsoft Health activity. Here's how to review all this data

How to make safe banking and financial transactions when online

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Very few people think about the safe way of making financial transactions when online. Some connect to public WiFi and purchase items on Amazon or do online banking. Such behavior exposes you to many risks and it makes it easy for others to steal your financial data like your credit card details and use it to harm you. That's why we decided to write this guide in which we will
tutorial How to make sure that Skype for Windows hides your IP address

How to make sure that Skype for Windows hides your IP address

While being the most widely used voice and video chat service in the world, Skype has suffered for a very long time from a really annoying security hole. If not set properly, Skype leaks your IP address. This was Skype's Achilles' heel and, even though Microsoft patched many security holes during the last few years, they didn't patch this one. Recently, all the new

3 Common ways in which your Windows device can be spied upon

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Do you have a girlfriend who has trust issues? Or a parent who acts a bit paranoid when he or she sees you spending most of your evenings chatting on your computer? The chance is that anyone close to you who has some computer skills, can spy on your Windows computer. Maybe they do that with good intentions (for example, you parent wants to make sure that you don't access

How to Set a Proxy Server on Windows 8.1 Tablet or Hybrid Device

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  • Radu Tyrsina
One of the small but good improvements in Windows 8.1 is that it provides a touch-friendly way to set a proxy server. This proxy is then used by Internet Explorer and modern apps from the Windows Store that need to access the web. In Windows 8, even if you had a tablet or a hybrid device like Microsoft Surface, you had to use the desktop version of Internet Explorer to

How to Add, Change or Remove VPN Connections in Windows 8.1

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Windows 8.1 provides a more complex PC Settings panel that, for some tasks and settings, it is better and more complete than the traditional Control Panel. One of the surprising things you can do with it is that you can create VPN connections, configure them in detail and remove them when you no longer need to use them. Here's how it all works: [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] How to Start the Add VPN

Introducing Windows 8.1: How to Improve Your Privacy When Using Apps

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Windows 8.1 brings many welcome changes, some of which have not been communicated very well by Microsoft. One of the lesser known changes is that Windows 8.1 has very good privacy controls for working with Windows Store apps. As you will see in this tutorial, these controls are detailed and really useful. If you want to set which apps use what data, then reading this guide is a must. [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK]

How to Create, Configure and Use a VPN Connection in Windows 8 & 8.1

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) provide an easy way to extend a private network across the Internet and gain access to them when needed, in a secure manner. You may use VPN to connect to the network from your workplace, or to your home network when you are on the go. Indifferent of the reason, both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 offer features that enable you to create, configure and use

How to Decrypt a TrueCrypt Encrypted Drive or Partition

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  • Radu Tyrsina
If encrypting a partition with TrueCrypt can be a lengthy and painful process, the decryption is a lot smoother and faster. In this guide, I would like to share the steps involved, to make you feel comfortable and confident enough to go ahead with the process. [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] NOTE: In order to decrypt a drive, it must be first mounted by TrueCrypt. If you are working with an external drive, manually

What is the Performance Impact of System Encryption With TrueCrypt

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  • Radu Tyrsina
One of my recent dilemmas was: if I encrypt my computer, how much will computing performance have to suffer because of it? Will there be a big difference? If yes, in which areas? That's why I decided to run some tests on both my computers and learn more about the impact TrueCrypt encryption has on computing performance. [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] Systems Being Tested The tests were made on two computers: a desktop

How to Encrypt Your System Drive With TrueCrypt In a Multi-Boot Configuration

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  • Radu Tyrsina
Many people use TrueCrypt to encrypt their systems and maintain their data as safe as possible. Encrypting your computer when you have one operating system installed and one partition is relatively easy, even with TrueCrypt. But, what about encrypting your system drive when using a multi-boot setup? That's really complicated and this guide is here to help. [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] Prerequisites - What You Must Have Before You Start There are a

How to Backup and Restore Windows Vault Passwords

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  • Radu Tyrsina
One way to use the Credential Manager is to export your Windows credentials to another Windows computer, or to back them up and import them after you reinstall Windows, so that you don't have to manually type them again. This can be useful in some scenarios and we would like to show how to backup Windows credentials and restore them when needed. [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] Backup Your Windows User Names and Passwords
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