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• Why No Website Can Be 100% Unblockable (And What to Do About It)
  Any government can filter a domain, an IP, or a TLS fingerprint — the realistic goal is not invulnerability but redundancy: several independent doors to the same content.
• How HTTPS Keeps the Web Private (TLS in Plain Terms)
  The padlock in your browser is the most-ignored security icon you use every day. Behind it is TLS, a handshake that lets two strangers over a hostile network agree on a secret in the open — and understanding it explains both why HTTPS is remarkable and why the padlock is not a guarantee you are safe.
• How DNS Works: The Invisible Phone Book That Runs the Internet
  Every click starts with a lookup you never see: a name becomes a number in tens of milliseconds, through a global, cached, hierarchical database nobody centrally controls. Here is the machinery of DNS — roots, TLDs, resolvers, records and TTLs — and its documented weak spots.