Good vpns and bad

Let’s start with the basics: what is a virtual private network (VPN)? In short, it’s an encrypted connection from your device to a remote server. VPNs used to be common in the workplace, allowing thos

You don’t go on holiday to watch TV, but it can certainly come in useful. When you’re confined to a hotel room, holiday cottage or caravan due to bad weather, tiredness or illness, or enduring a long

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

I used to save everything to my Windows desktop – files, documents, software, the lot. I thought it was the only way to know where they were, but it made my desktop a complete mess. What I do now Now

Even I, with my exotic lifestyle and winning social manners, do not expect to bump into an MP just wandering around the streets of London. It’s taken four decades or so for us to be sitting in the rig

I am getting increasingly annoyed with companies that make it difficult to update their software. Ideally, an app should have a “Check for update” menu item. Even better if there’s a “Check every day”