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This post was originally published on 26 APR 2021; it has since been updated and revised.

Looking for solid and maintained blocklists to round out the blocking capabilities of your Pi-Hole install? You've come to the right page.

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DNS enables the easy navigation from website to website as you currently know it. However, the system wasn’t exactly designed with your privacy and security in mind.

Many DNS resolvers - such as your internet service provider's (ISP) - do not encrypt queries and may log data and metadata surroundi...

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This post was originally published on 29 JAN 2022. It has since been updated and revised.

DNS enables your devices to connect to the internet as we currently know it, translating the human-readable domain name to a machine-readable IP address.

However, what happens if your resolver is either i...

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This post was originally published on 1 FEB 2023; it has since been updated and revised.

In this guide we look at how to get familiar with using/tweaking Safing Portmaster, an open-source and host-based application firewall available for Linux and Windows machines.

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The DNS system is the ever reliant phone book of the Internet. It plays a large part in what makes the today's Internet so easy to use and browse as so many of us do.

But were you aware that the standard implementation of DNS is, by nature, highly insecure? Did you know that this insecurity poses...

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For a lot of people, the hardest part about running a PiHole is generally setting up the whole thing.

This can be especially true if you're not the best networking person or are unfamiliar with the typical environment (Linux) that PiHole usually calls home.

The aim of this guide is to provide...

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