What is SPN? A VPN – or Virtual Private Network - is a service that creates an encrypted tunnel between the device and the provider's se... | Continue reading
What is Zero-Knowledge/End-to-End Encrypted Email & Why Do You Need It? Encrypted email is a bit of a misnomer. Technically all emails a... | Continue reading
I'm not a fan of Elon Musk for a variety of reasons. I've been relatively open about that. But even a broken clock is right twice a day, ... | Continue reading
If you dig a little deeper into privacy - beyond the basics like encrypted communications, password managers, 2FA, and Linux - you'll sta... | Continue reading
About the Author & the Book Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, and Noel Brown cohost one of my personal favorite podcasts, Stuff They Don’t Wan... | Continue reading
A more advanced strategy that comes up often in the privacy community is that of “custom domains.” These tools can provide a wide variety... | Continue reading
Disclosure: The New Oil is sponsored by IVPN. Per the terms of this agreement, IVPN does not have any input on our review, but we want to... | Continue reading
It’s a new year, and for most people that means “new beginnings.” Humans are naturally drawn to specific milestones in our lives because ... | Continue reading
What is 2FA and Why Do You Need It? 2FA is an abbreviation for “two-factor authentication,” which is basically what it sounds like. User... | Continue reading
“What a year.” My annual catchphrase. I always say that this project has exploded in ways I never expected, and that never stops being tr... | Continue reading
About the Author & the Book Cathy O’Neil is an American mathematician and data scientist. She got a Ph.D in math from Harvard, and later... | Continue reading
The following is an original piece of journalism from The New Oil Twitter may be compromised, and nobody's covering it. This is the alle... | Continue reading
Regardless of how you feel about capitalism, there is one aspect of it that – to some extent – I think we can all agree is nice: the free... | Continue reading
About the Author & the Book Shoshana Zuboff is no stranger to technology and the way it impacts our modern life. With a Ph.D. in psychol... | Continue reading
Next week, gift-giving season officially beginning in the United States (and at least a few other places, I presume) with Black Friday. A... | Continue reading
What is Wire & Why Do You Need It? Wire is an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messenger available on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS. ... | Continue reading
Perhaps one of the most underrated and feared things in the quest to protect your privacy is the dreaded privacy policy. Many a question ... | Continue reading
What is Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) and Why Do You Need It? Voice-over-IP – or VoIP – is basically phone calls over the internet or cell data r... | Continue reading
Times change. If you're reading this, well, you can read. And I'm willing to bet so can almost everyone else you know and work and associ... | Continue reading
Disclosure: I have an affiliate link with ProtonVPN that gives me a small financial incentive if you sign up for a paid plan using it. Yo... | Continue reading
In this review, I’ve decided to lump both Bitwarden and KeePass into the same review because of their vast similarities. However, there a... | Continue reading
Privacy can be overwhelming. It seems like every company out there is intent on collecting as much data as possible. For example, this mo... | Continue reading
What is Threema & Why Do You Need It? Threema is an end-to-end encrypted messenger available on Android, and iOS. Linux, Mac, Windows, a... | Continue reading
The New Oil now has a merch store. If you have no interest in such things, feel free to ignore this. But if you’re interested in possibly... | Continue reading
Disclaimer/Disclosure of Interest: The New Oil has a ProtonMail affiliate link. If you sign up for a paid plan using this link, we get a ... | Continue reading
Amazon’s now-legendary “Prime Day” is July 12-13. Boy that sneaks up on you fast when you avoid them and don't have ads in your life. Muc... | Continue reading
What is Signal & Why Do You Need It? Even if you’re not big into privacy or security, you’ve likely at least heard of Signal. The WhatsA... | Continue reading
I have a thought experiment for you. Pretend you’re driving somewhere local. A friend’s house, your favorite store, the office, whatever.... | Continue reading