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Algo, a project by Trail of Bits, is a VPN that you host yourself on a VPS of your own choosing. Self-hosted VPN's can be complicated to set up, but Algo is pretty easy: just download the files to your local machine, register for an account (if you don't have one already) at Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean, or Google App Engine, and then run three commands in the terminal. That's pretty much it. In about 10 minutes, you have an easy, secure IPSec VPN.

As you've doubtless heard by now, Amazon announced yesterday that it is bringing to market a new Echo device called "Look." As you might have gathered given the name, this in-home "assistant" comes with an Internet-connected camera (oh, goody!):

With Echo Look, you can take full-length photos of your daily look using just your voice. The built-in LED lighting and depth-sensing camera let you blur the background to make your outfits pop, giving you clean, shareable photos. Get a live view in the Echo ...

In a bit of epic trolling, Bloomberg's editorial board published a piece¹ this week praising Trump and Congress for their efforts to continue permitting ISP's to sell your personal browsing data for a profit. The specious arguments drip with willful stupidity from the first sentence, and the piece just gets more dumb as it goes on:

On one issue, at least, President Donald Trump has united the country: More than 70 percent of the public -- across political parties -- oppose a bill he ...

In the wake of Congress' recent vote to reverse FCC rules that would require ISP's to obtain customers' permission before selling their browsing histories to marketers, concerned consumers have been searching for some way to prevent their providers from having a complete record of their browsing habits. VPN services seem to be the most often recommended solution, but as security researcher Brian Krebs explains, finding a trustworthy VPN is key—otherwise you might just be handing your browsing history to yet another third party ...

The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to roll back FCC protections enacted this past October which would prevent your broadband ISP from selling your browsing history to advertisers. This news may have slipped through the cracks in all the hubbub over the health care bill, but it's a troubling vote in its own right and it deserves your attention if you are concerned about privacy.