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Didi Rankovic

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How Every Online Comment Feeds a File You’ll Never See

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The Best Open Source Bookmark and Read-It-Later Tools

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No Warrant No Problem: The Surveillance State Has an App Now

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Pegasus Explained: When Phones Become a Government Informant Weapon That Doesn’t Miss

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The Backdoor That Burned the Whole House Down: TeleMessage Breach Shows Fatal Flaws in Encryption Backdoors

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Inside the $1.5 Billion US Censorship-Industrial Complex: How MDM Grants Built a Domestic and Global Narrative Control Network

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Welcome to the EU’s Election Cleanroom Where Only Approved Opinions Survive Online

Mark Zuckerberg’s Expensive Fear of Competition

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Break Free from Big Tech with These Privacy-First Tablets