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Ads on the web are beyond annoying - they are actually a threat to your privacy and sometimes even your security. Ads pay for a lot of the "free" web content we consume, but until ad networks stop tra

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We've talked about how to backup your local device data and how to back up data that is primarily stored in the cloud. But there's a lot of important, irreplaceable data we take for granted: data owne

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Russia has been hacking Ukraine for at least a decade now, but since the invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, the cyber war has changed. Instead of being a tactical element, cyber war is now a ful