It’s easy to take living in a free country for granted. Most of us wake up, make a cup of coffee, turn on the news, or browse the internet. It seems like an everyday facet of modern life, but many people in the world aren’t afforded the same luxury. Some countries impose extreme censorship guidelines […]
Your browser probably isn’t as safe as you think it is. Many people new to online privacy and security believe that AdBlock and an incognito mode will keep them perfectly protected on the internet. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Almost every browser is susceptible to tracking cookies, stores browsing history, and even collects […]
In China, huge billion-dollar systems are being created and implemented to track citizens as massive scales. Infrastructure has already been built to track cell phone use, location, and activity in the form of Aegis—-an application that can provide a full view to the virtual world based on real world data collected from phone networks and […]
Hong Kong’s reputation as an independent haven for digital nomads is looking very uncertain. By now, it’s clear that China is one of the world’s worst countries in terms of internet privacy, censorship, and surveillance–and those ideals are starting to put pressure on Hong Kong. Protesters and privacy rights advocates are now witnessing the sheer […]
We’ve been covering more and more instances of global censorship here on the TorGuard blog, from censorship in Turkey that has blocked more than 240,000 websites—to censorship in Cuba where new regulations are forming that make internet control very easy for the Cuban government. And we’ve even covered China’s worsening internet policy state multiple times. […]
Coming July 29th, Cuban society is going to become “computerized” and new censorship regulations are going to take place that drastically alter how free speech and internet content will be blocked moving forward. According to the Cuban government, the new internet changes are nothing more than a matter of “legal regulations that allow the implementation […]
As the growth of websites and free discourse has grown–so too has government crackdowns, blacklists, and all other forms of internet censorship. Turkey has been a hotspot for censorship since 2014, banning access to over 245,825 websites. Only 11,879 of these blocked websites have been blocked through the regular court process. All the other websites […]
Facebook has now released their new “cryptocurrency” Libra to a very mixed reception. Now, let’s be clear. Libra can’t really be called a cryptocurrency in the traditional sense of the word for several reasons. For one, Facebook is legally required to censor transactions if requested. Bitcoin has largely become such an important currency since the […]
The internet as we know it has become a vast global phenomenon. Data is transmitted to push through financial transactions as well as personal or corporate data, and the devices we use to send this information play an important part in protecting ourselves. One way to protect devices and the communications sent through them is […]
Welcome to the exciting (and sometimes confusing) world of virtual currency. Alternative cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, have revolutionized the way we think about money ever since Bitcoin lead the way for the first wave of cryptocurrencies. At one point, Bitcoin was the only cryptocurrency around, and now, there are thousands. Bitcoin has become the leader that […]
In May of 2018 TorGuard launched our Bug Bounty program which provides researchers clear guidance on how to submit security concerns to TorGuard management using responsible disclosure. We are extremely grateful to the security community for their contributions and professionalism while working with us. Unfortunately, not all in the security community have followed these policies […]
Cryptocurrency
