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