Exploring further the concept of online privacy will always bring us to a very important and complicated topic: the Internet Service Provider, or ISP for short. This is the company that installs your Internet router in your home and provides you with Internet access. …

We started a short analysis of online privacy and we already talked about creating private accounts and the necessity of having multiple accounts to accommodate the many roles we take online. But no matter how many accounts we have and how we manage to secure it, one thing never fails…

Since we talked last time about encryption and how it presents itself to protect user’s interests and privacy, I wanted to move on to more real world examples of how it’s implemented and used. …

We will spend a bit of time today talking about privacy, specifically data encryption. There are many terms companies throw around and we need to understand what they are talking about. And if we want to trust them our most personal data, we also need to understand the fine prints…

Did you know there is no way to recursively copy a folder skipping over all the existing items using Finder on a Mac? Recursive copy means copy all the files in the folder, and do the same for each subfolder and so on until the whole folder structure is parsed…

As promised, I will bother you again with yet another decades old MS-DOS application. This time we will talk about one of the most powerful file managers ever created for MS-DOS: Dos Navigator. …

We talked a bit about online privacy and the social contract we are all part of. Of course we can all just live in basements and make fun of everybody online, but this series focuses on how to get out of the basement while still maintaining essential privacy. …

We talked a lot about emulation here, focusing mainly on two applications: QEMU and DosBOX. We used QEMU to show how to emulate impressive ranges of machines, even having different architectures than the running system, and then we used DosBOX to showcase a few older applications I am fond of…

We started to discuss a bit how online privacy looks, and we argued that be it online or offline, privacy has the same characteristics: it does not rely on the software we use, it relies on public behavior. I may use Linux and be a strong advocate for open-source software…