Lexie

Lexie is the blog's resident tech expert and gets excited about empowerment through technology, space travel, and pancakes with blueberries.

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We’re at the dawn of medical surveillance

As a consequence of Covid-19, our medical data is at risk of becoming a cornerstone of the surveillance state.
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All in your head: Creating a Bitcoin ‘brainwallet’ with Diceware

Learn how to generate a list of random, secure words to store Bitcoin in your brain. Lexie says it’s as easy as rolling dice!
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Bitcoin paper wallets: Taking your Bitcoin security offline

One way to safeguard your cryptocurrency is to generate a paper wallet—a private key written and stored on physical paper.
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This app measures how much of your internet is censored

OONI is a tool from the Tor Project that lets everyone join the effort to map online censorship worldwide. Here is how you can help.
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Tor outage: How a major attack felled the onion network

The Tor Network suffered a serious outage this month. We look at why Tor is not entirely decentralized, and how this affects its security.
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Top 9 .onion websites from the depths of the dark web

Looking to explore the top dark web links? There’s so much to see, where do you start? ExpressVPN lists the must-see .onion sites for 2021.
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Upgrading Bitcoin, Part 2: A challenging process

It takes time for an idea to turn into code, and that code to be deployed on the Bitcoin network. Here is how this process works.
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Upgrading Bitcoin, Part 1: The pitfalls of hard forks and soft...

The Bitcoin network relies on strong consensus rules. These can be upgraded through forks, but it isn’t always easy.
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Why more apps should integrate Tor

It allows for end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer connections on the dark web.
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Download Android apps anonymously via the Aurora Store

Don’t want Big Tech knowing what apps you download? The Aurora Store is one private alternative to the Google Play Store.
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What is spyware and how do I remove it?

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Zero-knowledge proofs explained: Part 1

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