keverets @keverets@librem.one

Hey, #canada !

Did you know that if you're in Canada, you can download free cybersecurity tools?

This sounds like an ad, I know.

I'm just a sysadmin who uses these products at home and a certain set of them even at work. They're provided by CIRA, and even though I get the occasional overzealous block that I have to fine-tune around, they're actually quite good.

I find that even most of the people I talk to in Canadian tech don't know about it, though.

You can find out more here:

https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/

(For people looking to protect households or businesses, they have a DNS product that's quite easy to set up to work in the background, in addition to the apps that you can get for individual devices.)

Protecting children online matters—but age verification is not how you do it. Read our analysis of the new EU Kids Act, which is a threat to the open internet and our privacy https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/eu-kids-act-wont-keep-internet-accountable-and-trustworthy