Cybersecurity
It's tax scam time again: protect yourself from fraud
How to spot and respond to tax season scams, plus practical steps to secure your SARS eFiling account and share tax data safely.
Journal
Notes from Noiz on Linux, hosting, security, privacy and doing infrastructure quietly.
Field notes from Noiz on Linux, hosting, security and privacy — and on doing infrastructure quietly.
Articles
Privacy
[noiz] – send | secure file sharing
Noiz launches send.noiz.co.za, a free WeTransfer alternative offering end-to-end encrypted file sharing with expiring links and Thunderbird integration.
Decentralisation
Never waste a good outage
The CrowdStrike outage that crashed millions of Windows machines, immediate workaround steps, and why open source and decentralisation prevent it.
FOSS
Use Signal – Why we ditched WhatsApp and switched to Signal
Why Noiz abandoned WhatsApp for Signal: WhatsApp's data collection and backdoor concerns versus Signal's open-source, default end-to-end encryption.
Software
Windows 10 is dead, and I could not be happier
Windows 10 end of life means costs, lock-in and surveillance with Windows 11 — or freedom by switching to GNU/Linux with Noiz's help.
Privacy
The Hidden Wiki
A look at The Hidden Wiki, a trusted Tor-accessible index of dark web resources, and how to reach it safely via v3 .onion addresses.
Cryptocurrency
How to install Monero Wallet on GNU/Linux
Step-by-step instructions to download, verify, and install the Monero Wallet GUI or CLI on any GNU/Linux distribution.
FOSS
Switching from Windows to Linux
A roundup of the best Linux alternatives to popular Windows software, from office suites to media players and photo tools.
Privacy
Good Alternative Search Engines to DuckDuckGone
After DuckDuckGo's censorship turn, here are private, censorship-resistant search engines worth switching to.
Talk to Noiz.
Hand the infrastructure over, or just ask a question — Noiz takes it from there.