Snowflake lets a normal browser or computer act as a short-lived entrance so someone on a censored network can reach Tor. You do not learn which sites they open. The traffic past you is still Tor traffic. You do see a connection from their network to yours, because your machine is the door. That is […]
Tor bridges are unlisted entrance relays for networks that block the public Tor relays. Tor Browser can request one itself. The Tor Project also hands them out at bridges.torproject.org after a captcha. obfs4 and Snowflake are transports: they make the first hop look less like a plain Tor connection. That raises the cost of blocking. […]
uBlock Origin is the final answer to ad blocking: open source, absurdly efficient with memory, curated lists you can extend indefinitely, and maintained for a decade by a developer with no price and no roadmap for your attention. Nothing else in the category comes close. Chrome’s Manifest V3 restrictions have made Firefox its best home, […]
Trayvax makes metal card wallets in the United States. Some models add an RFID-blocking layer so a casual scanner does not read the chip in a contactless card. The frame holds a few cards and a bill. Warranties are part of the pitch. The steel is stiff until it loosens. RFID blocking is not a […]
Silent Pocket sells wallets with RFID blocking and separate Faraday sleeves for phones, key fobs, and laptops. A closed sleeve is meant to attenuate radio so the device inside is not on the cellular, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth network. That is a real use: a phone you want silent in a meeting, a fob you do […]
Ekster makes thin wallets, often leather, with an RFID-blocking layer and an optional tracker card. The tracker is a Bluetooth tag so the wallet can ping a phone when you leave it behind. Solar charging on that card is a product feature, not a privacy feature. A tracker is a radio you chose to add. […]
Diceware builds a passphrase from dice and a word list, so the randomness is the physical throw, not a program you have to trust. Arnold Reinhold published the method. The EFF long wordlist is the variant most people should use now, because the words are clearer. Five or six words from a 7,776-word list is […]
Bitwarden’s generator is a web page that builds a random password or passphrase in your browser. You set the length and the character set, then you copy the result. You do not need an account. The useful version of this is local: the page should be doing the work on your machine, not sending the […]
LessPass does not store passwords. It derives each one from the site name, your login, and a master passphrase, using a published method. There is no database to sync or steal. Browser and phone apps exist, and the code is open. Change the counter when a site forces a new password. The master passphrase is […]
Cryptomator creates a vault folder that encrypts each file before Dropbox, Drive, or OneDrive syncs it. The cloud sees scrambled filenames and ciphertext. The desktop apps are open source and free. The phone apps are a paid unlock. A vault mounts like a normal drive while it is open. The cloud cannot preview or search […]
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