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If the 2020s are going to roar as stylishly as the 1920s, we need furniture dedicated to hooch. “People are looking for ways to entertain at home gracefully,” said Laura Neuman, the principal of PepperJack Interiors in Loomis, Calif., who has installed bar cabinets as affordable alternatives to built-in bars. Adding the latter to your home involves the services of so many tradespeople—tile mason, plumber, cabinet maker—that it can become a demanding (and expensive) project, she said. 

Every time you launch a new website, information about things like your domain name registrar and hosting provider are made publicly available. In many cases, resourceful (and sometimes malicious) third parties can access this and a range of more personal data, which can cause privacy and security issues.  

Fortunately, the best anonymous hosting solutions are designed to help you protect your privacy. As long as you use a reliable anonymous hosting service, you shouldn’t have to provide any personal or identifying information. Sign up with a pseudonym and/or email address, and pay with an anonymous payment method, to really reduce the risk of any privacy breaches. 

On one hand, I suppose it’s flattering to think online crooks so often create fake copies of the Mirror’s website because it’s a trusted name.

On the other, it is horrible to think that anyone might be taken in by one of these sites.

They crop up all over the place, one example I’ve seen this week starting with an advert on danword.com, a website for crossword solvers.

It featured a picture of Richard Branson and under the heading ‘Breaking News’ gushed about new investment opportunities.

Clicking on the advert took you to what looked like an online Mirror news story, with our logo and page layout style.

Only the url, cryptoitscool.com, gave away that fact it was fake.

The “story” claimed that Branson had gone onto a chat show to reveal that he had invested £27million…