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Protect your privacy during turbulent times: A hacker’s guide to being cyber-safe

  • Written by Timothy Summers, Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Engagement, University of Maryland
imageIf only it were this easy.'Keyboard' via shutterstock.com

Protecting individual privacy from government intrusion is older than American democracy. In 1604, the attorney general of England, Sir Edward Coke, ruled that a man’s house is his castle. This was the official declaration that a homeowner could protect himself and his privacy from the...

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