Jonah Aragon

I love networking, a lot.

For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others.

"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.

Apple's press release yesterday reads with the professionally and poise of a teenager throwing a tantrum, it's amazing really.

The recent move among U.S. states to add digital "age verification" to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one.

Privacy advocates have been calling for the United States to adopt strong consumer privacy protection laws along the lines of the EU’s GDPR for a long time now, but the proposed Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Commu…

First, some background: Henry and I discussed this topic on Episode 8 of the Techlore Talks podcast, and if you watch YouTube yourself and haven’t been living under a rock, you probably already know: Early in the morning (Pacific Time), Linus Media Group’s

Despite its occasional abuse, anonymity online is a valuable privilege that cannot be given up nor taken for granted.

macOS Ventura was released this week, and the Apple users among us may be interested in the improvements it brings to your personal privacy and security.

At some point, Marco Wollank, the operator of the “PrivacyTools.io” website, published a defamatory blog post entitled: “Jonah Aragon’s (PrivacyGuides) Failed Attempt to Takeover PrivacyTools.io” The allegations presented in that blog post are completely…

If you don’t like drama, feel free to ignore this whole post.

I wrote this piece as a response to (and general agreement with) The Real Privacy Enemy is Ourselves by Henry from Techlore, which is a very interesting read.

I originally wrote this piece for the Privacy Guides blog, although the information herein has been largely superseded by my contributions to their Threat Modeling and Common Threats pages, which I recommend exploring.

There’s a massive problem in the privacy world.

So you know what a VPN is, but there are so many options to choose from!