Online privacy

Saudi Arabia is considered to be among the countries that exercise tight control on the internet using very strong filtering systems. All international internet traffic are directed through a proxy farm based in King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology. The DNS structure in Saudi Arabic has been under the control of the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) since October 2006. Websites filtered by Saudi Arabia Internet censorship in Saud...

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A digest on the Great Firewall of China China has turned into the world's largest internet prison due to the government's increasing, oppressive restrictions over the World Wide Web. With the beginning of this year, the Chinese government has tightened its grip over the web by setting up a highly sophisticated filtering system known as the Great Firewall of China. Although the Great Firewall can't be seen from space, but it can be sorely perceived with every activit...

In September 2012, the Pakistani government blocked the giant video-hosting Youtube for refusing to delete a controversial video film called “Innocence of Muslims”, which sparked fury among many muslims all over the world and was deemed "blasphemous" by the government of Pakistan. “The government does not want to take any chance and wants to make sure that after the unblocking YouTube, no offensive content remains viewable in Pakistan,” [...] “So far no tool...

Until a few years ago, people preferred going to local stores and markets to buy what they need, even though online shopping was available then. However, people at that time would rather spend hours walking down the market to buy their goods than shop online using their credit cards for fear of theft. But today this concept has drastically changed as many online stores have proven to be legit and now offer safe methods to buy from a variety of genuine products with lesser...

As you probably know by now, internet access is bound by some aggressive restriction laws in many parts of the world, like: China, Iran, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and many others. This harsh policy is imposed by governments mainly to tighten their grip around their people's political and religious views. As a result, millions of websites, search engines and applications; such as: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Skype, Viber and What's App are blocked in those c...

In a nutshell, a virtual private network (VPN) creates a connection that is encrypted between your computer or hand device and servers of your VPN provider. All communications and data traffic are then transferred through a secure virtual tunnel over the internet making it almost impossible for third parties to monitor and trace your activities online. VPNs mask your IP address and replace it with one from its globally spread servers so that you can surf the web with comple...

VPN and Proxy Servers VPN and Proxy servers are mainly used to hide the user's identity online, or to bypass geo-filtering. For example, you can watch geo-blocked media streaming websites even outside the countries they restrictedly stream in. While there are numerous free proxy services all over the internet, there are a lot of VPN service providers that provide proxy services. Both VPN and Proxy re-route your internet traffic and change your IP, but ‘what is the di...

Are you a web surfer living in Oman and cannot access a lot of websites, social networks or use VoIP applications, like Skype, Viber or What'sApp? Due to the stiff internet filtering regime practiced by government of the Sultanate of Oman, a lot of Omani internet users are blocked from accessing many web content, like fashion websites, Netflix and Hulu as well as some social networks and voice over internet services, especially Skype and Viber. However, internet users ca...

Android OS is the most popular and ever-growing mobile platform in the world today. It operates hundreds of millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the world. Android is the most customizable operating system that delivers a premium platform for users all over the globe to create apps and games on, and the chance to market their products instantly. Every month users download over 1.5 billion apps and games from Google Play making Android a wonderla...