9 Privacy and Security Tips for Working from Home
We hope that you’re staying safe and healthy, complying by public health rules and regulations, and doing your best to get through these tough times in good spirits. Many of us are going to be studying and working from home for a while even as things reopen. This means that we’re not only closer to […]
The more things change…
Recently I have been reflecting on how approaches to Internet safety have changed since I was a child in the 90s and early 00s. Back then, it was all Neopets and games on the Disney channel website. In later years (the mid 2000s), my classmates all flocked to personal blogging websites like MySpace, and all […]
Book Review: Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Business
Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Business: Solve the Security Puzzle for Your Small Business and Home Scott N. Schober, with Craig Schober (2019) Digital Tattoo Rating: 4/5 1 2 3 4 5 Leave it on the shelf Give it a skim An informative read Would give to a friend A must read!!! Cybersecurity is Everybody’s […]
Zooming Into Remote Working
To quote every single email I have both sent and received in the past month, we are living in strange times. Many workplaces, schools, and friend groups have had their regular activities disrupted, and human contact is (temporarily) no longer an option. With nowhere else to go, the world has turned online. While there are […]
Time for TikTok? Security issues and the meteoric rise of TikTok
After its launch in 2017, video-sharing app TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular apps. Filling the cultural void left by the fall of Vine in 2016, it became beloved by teenagers all over the world almost overnight. Developed by Chinese company ByteDance, the app allows users to upload videos only a few […]
A Failed Instagram Experiment.
Back in the summer, I had what I thought was an excellent idea. I would open a new Instagram account and, for one month, try to live life like an influencer. I hoped it would be an experiment that shed some light on the impact living a public digital life could have on a person. […]
Making the Switch to Open Source
As we all increasingly become aware of privacy and digital safety issues, many of us want to be safer online but this is often hampered by the convenience versus safety battle that comes with this choice. One of the ways to improve on your digital safety is opting for open source software alternatives but more […]
How to Protect Your Digital Identity Based on Your Zodiac Sign
We all can do more to protect ourselves online, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you out, we’ve come up with simple steps each Zodiac sign can take to increase their online safety. Let us know if your sign’s advice speaks to you, and let us know how […]
Report from RightsCon: Queerness and the Politics of Visibility
Hi, my name is Jamie Duncan. I was incredibly fortunate to represent the Digital Tattoo project at RightsCon 2019, the world’s largest conference on human rights in the digital age, in Tunis, Tunisia. I learned a ton and was asked to share some of this with the Digital Tattoo community through this blog post. […]
In the News: Government Malware Disguised as Android Apps
A report by Vice News [1] published last week points to a report made by the cybersecurity group Security Without Borders [2] about Android malware that disguises itself as innocuous apps on Google’s Play Store. While disguising malicious software as harmless applications is not a technique that is new [3], the article published by Vice […]
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