I recently read an article on the TriLUG blog mirror discussing access to data after the death of the owner. I've also given this a lot of thought as well and had previously come to the same conclusion as the original author of the article has:
read more"I created a file …
As a security engineer it's usually difficult for me to endure many of dumb things companies do. It's quite sad when a company that prides itself on creating solutions for building internal solutions to protect customer data actually starts pushing its own data out to Google and other "solution" providers …
read moreGenerating a PGP using GnuPG (GPG) is quite simple. The following shows my recommendations for generating a PGP key today.
$ gpg --gen-key gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.16; Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY …read more
SFGate: If You Send To Gmail, You Have 'No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy'
Not that this is really news but if you hand your message to a third-party for delivery you have no expectation of privacy. Agree with it or not that's the way it is inside the United States …
read moreAn excellent description of how Tor and HTTPS can help protect your online privacy and secure your web communications.
read moreMuch of our daily lives are contained within our smartphones and computers. Email, text messages, and phone calls all contain bits and pieces of information that, in the wrong hands, could harm our privacy. Unfortunately many people either don't understand how vulnerable their data is when sent across the Internet …
read moreMore and more sensitive communications are occurring over unsecure instant messaging (IM) systems. These messages go through a third-party and can be read anywhere along the way. An easy, open-source solution does exist to help protect these communications, however.
First you need the IM client called Pidgin. This client works …
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