Last year, I got to visit France for the first time. It had been a long time since I was overseas. How long ago? The last time I was in Europe, neither smartphones nor broadband Internet existed. My learning curve…
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “military grade”? Something strong and tough? Protection against disaster and destruction? That’s why marketers use it. So many products – from smartphone cases to notebooks – are labelled as military grade….
In my previous post Backup Basics, I told you about using external hard drives and cloud storage to backup your computers and mobile devices. Not only are external hard drives getting larger (and cheaper), but there are a number of…
Many years ago, I had a very bad habit: I didn’t backup my files. I learned the hard way that this was a recipe for disaster. One day, something went wrong with my antivirus software; it corrupted Windows to the…
About a year ago, I wrote this post on PGP. I showed you the basics of how PGP works, what software uses it, and how it is used to protect your emails and your files. I also told you that…
header image courtesy of WOCinTech Chat Have you ever thought about encrypting a flash drive or your whole computer? There’s lots of software out there that can do that, but which one should you pick? Many of them are for…
I never expected to see a reference to a Linux-based operating system in USA Today. But there it was, in the middle of an article about uses for old flash drives. The author called Tails one way “to protect your…
Note: This post is a beginner’s guide to the use of the Tor browser. It is not intended as a complete guide to the use of Tor. To learn more about potential risks, please read Tor is Good But It’s…
Note: this is an updated version of my previous post about Signal. After the last U.S. presidential election and the repeal of privacy protection laws regarding Internet use, many consumers became interested in keeping their communications private. The phrase “Use…
Updated June 2025 Google is no longer just a search engine. It is a tech company with all sorts of projects and products. Your Google account is a precious thing. Why should you protect it? Because it contains multitudes of…
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