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During this difficult time of "enhanced community quarantine", one of the things I do is muck around my gadgets to play games, research. and yes, blog.  During one of those gaming sessions on my phone, I noticed a simple and unobtrusive ad for a VPN.  The ad was about Tachyon VPN .  My initial reaction is that of indifference because ads for VPN service is a dime a dozen, especially when playing games on either iOS or Android.  A lot of them doesn't even work at all. However, I was strangely compelled to click on the ad and I was redirected to the App store amd since I was already there, I threw caution to the wind and clicked on install, ready to immediately delete the app once my device flags it as suspicious or malicious. I was pleasantly surprised when I was greeted by a rather clean interface and since no alarm bells rang, I decided to try it out and connect.  Upon connection, I was checked if the VPN was working.  I did this by going to https://www.wh...

In my previous post, I discussed Online Anonymity, its importance and how it is different from Online Privacy. Now that the importance of Online Anonymity has been highlighted, the question my five readers have in mind now is "how do we maintain our Online Anonymity?" First things first: in order to use the internet with Online Privacy in mind will require a paradigm shift -- in order to surf the net anonymously, we must try to relearn some of the things we are used to doing when accessing the internet in the convectional way.  Here are some things that we are all used to doing but should not practice if we want to access the internet Anonymously: use an anonymizing browser such as TOR Brower . when searching for information or anything else, do not use Google, Bing or Yahoo.  These search engines keeps a record of all searches, including which users did the search. never log in to any of your usual social media sites.  Once logged in, these social media sites wi...

If you have among the 5 readers who has been taking time to read articles from this site, you may notice that I have been discussing Personal Technology Security and I have been concentrating a lot on personal data privacy.  This is because most of the online scams I have encountered in the practice of my profession stems from either the careless handling or the (un)intentional leakage of personal information. But there is an aspect in Personal Technology Security that is just as important but is often overlooked, even ignored.  I am talking about Online Anonymity .  Internet technology is now so advanced that it can now track the activities of each individual online -- what one purchases, searches for, reads, and even writes in emails/message boards. Majority of people would dismiss the concept of anonymity outright because apparently "they have nothing to hide".  These people cannot be more wrong in their assumption. Let me put it this way: Have you ever sear...