Privacy advancements, encryption deep-dives, and the technology behind keeping your data yours.
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Plaintext at the Edges: The Copies Encryption Doesn't Cover
What happens with your content once it has been decrypted on-device matters a lot. Find out more about why this matters, and what Media Den does to protect your data once decrypted.
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Government Threats to Privacy: The Past Year in the US and Canada
From app-store age verification to Canada's lawful-access bill, a roundup of US and Canadian federal proposals from the past year that would expand surveillance or mandate data collection, and where each one stands as of June 2026.
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Media Den Now Speaks Five Languages
Version 1.6 adds French, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, and Simplified Chinese, picked from a new Language option in Settings. How it works, plus a quick recap of what the app does.
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The Data Hiding in Your Photos
Every photo your phone takes records where it was shot, when, and on what device. Here's what that hidden EXIF data has given away, and how to remove it before you share.
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Taking Back Your Privacy: Practical Steps for Everyday Browsing
A practical checklist for protecting your privacy online: VPNs, ad blockers, password managers, encrypted messaging, and more. No technical background required.
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Galois/Counter Mode: Why Encryption Alone Is Not Enough
Encryption hides data but doesn't detect tampering. GCM was designed to fix that. Here's how it works, what it replaced, and what it demands from the systems that use it.
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From Password to Key: How PBKDF2 Bridges the Gap
Encryption algorithms don't work with passwords. PBKDF2 is the twenty-five-year-old function that bridges the gap. Here's how it got here.
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AES-256-GCM: The Encryption Behind Most of the Internet
The story of AES-256-GCM: from a dying 1970s standard, through a global cryptographic race, to the algorithm protecting nearly every secure connection on the internet today.