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Public Wi-Fi: The Warning Is Out of Date, the Exposure Is Not
All eight sites we checked end on HTTPS and all eight set HSTS, so nobody on the café network can read what you send — i...
What Actually Happens to Your Bonus
The tax on an extra $1,200 is identical whether it arrives as salary or as a bonus — we computed it at five salary level...
Can a Deleted File Be Recovered? We Erased the Whole Volume and Read It Back
We wrote a file marked so it could not be mistaken for anything else, deleted it, then erased the entire volume the way...
What Can a Browser Extension See? We Read the Manifests
The permission dialogue tells you exactly what an extension may do, in a vocabulary that means little until you have see...
How Much Internet Speed Do I Need? Stop Multiplying by People
The usual method — one person's needs times the number of people — assumes a connection gets divided. We measured it: on...
Latency vs Bandwidth: Which One Are You Actually Waiting For?
Internet plans are sold in one number, and for most of what you do all day it is the smaller half of the answer. Asking...
What Does a QR Code Actually Store? You Cannot Tell by Looking
Two codes pointing at two different sites differ in 35.6 per cent of their squares — and no human can tell, because nobo...
How Much RAM Do I Need? Free Memory Is the Wrong Number
On a 17.2 GB laptop running a browser, a container stack and an editor, free memory read 0.06 GB — and nothing was wrong...
Is This Email Really From Them? The Check You Cannot See
The sender name is free text and the address can be forged. The real check happens in DNS before the message reaches you...
Why Is My PDF So Big? It Is Probably a Picture of Text
We built one A4 page both ways and weighed them. As text: 8,256 bytes, with 4,791 searchable characters. The same page s...
What Does Incognito Mode Actually Do? Less Than the Name Suggests
A private window destroys a storage container when you close it — five things go with it, all of them data your own devi...
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