Millions of people are using “smart” watches, which collect biometric information including blood pressure, physical activity levels, body temperature, menstrual cycles and much more, unaware of the possible misuses of that data. If you have been thru and airport, casino, or have a drivers license, your face has been scanned for facial geometry. Combined with purchasing patterns, geo location, and search history, this gives the…
Privacy Levels
Level 0: No VPN on unmodified commercial cell phone, tablet, or computer. By default, everything you do is captured, shared, and monetized, with no benefits back to you. You are literally giving away everything. Level 1: Offramp VPN on unmodified commercial cell phone, tablet, or computer. Using the Offramp VPN you will prevent your DNS lookups from leaking and stop any snooping by your service…
Device Privacy
True Level 3 Privacy on your mobile device requires the use of a custom ROM. Stock Android is an excellent starting point, however, LinageOS and GrapheneOS have done a great job for a well thought out set of features, low hardware requirements, and great looks. Apple phones running with Zenfoil would be a good step to stop the data bleeding out to your network provider,…
What is DNS?
DNS lookups reveal a complete picture of who you are. Everything you do and everything you search on passes through the DNS system. All apps you connect to, all websites you go to, all activity on your device, is revealed by your cleartext DNS traffic. See Demo. This is the MOST valuable information about you and your business. DNS lookups are done in cleartext so…
What is Privacy?
The easiest way to understand privacy on the Internet is to consider if you are logged in or not. Not Logged In If you are just browsing around, reading news, without logging in you are leaking personal information to every service provider in your communications chain. When you agreed to the Terms of Service of your communications provider (Bell Canada, Rogers, Telus, etc) you waived…