This past Saturday we set up a table on the Church Street Marketplace in our hometown of Burlington, Vermont to meet the public, ask for donations, and to sign people up for our laptop give-away. Despite a little sunburn, and competing for attention with the Vermont Brewers Festival, we met…
Encryption is the foundation of online privacy. It keeps our data and online activities safe from prying eyes. In this article we’ll give a brief overview of how encryption is used in the cloud, and what you can do on your own to make it more secure. By far, the…
The Brave browser takes a unique approach to ad-blocking. While it has built in protection against ads and trackers, you can transfer money to a Brave Payments account and at the end of each month that money is doled out to the websites you visit most often. It’s intended to…
This month, we are giving away a Dell laptop, pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux and all of the necessary apps for secure web browsing, email, word processing, photo editing, and more — 100% free, privacy-respecting software with no ads and no trackers! We think you’ll find it all works just as…
Instant messaging services such as Facebook Messanger, or AIM have many of the same problems as other corporate walled gardens. They force users to connect to a centralized service, and then can monitor your usage to further develop their algorithmic profiles about you, as well as track your movements in…
Thanks to our amazing volunteer translators our Quickstart Guide, which provides basic information for new users, is now available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese! We may add new ones in the future to cater to specific clients, but these five languages alone cover over 75% of internet users….
Gibberfish is participating in this year’s Vermont Gives statewide giving day. Vermont Gives is organized by Common Good Vermont, to help Vermont-based non-profits raise funds and awareness. If you’re a Vermonter (or not!) please consider making a tax-deductible donation today. You don’t even have to leave this page, just click…
We have released an update to the Management Portal which allows our clients to opt in or out of our encrypted offsite backup service. This is part of our continuing effort to give our users total control of their data and privacy. Previously we had enabled this feature manually at…
We have established a presence on MeWe, the new(ish) look-alike competitor to Facebook that promises much better privacy protection for it’s users. From the outset, MeWe shows some encouraging signs. Their privacy policy states that they will not track users or sell their personal info to third parties. Their language…
We received such a good response from our call for volunteer translators that it became difficult to manage. It’s a good problem to have! Thankfully, we found a service called WebTranslateIt which makes the task of translating documents and keeping them up to date with changes much easier both for…
