With appeals to “national security,” governments around the world are pushing
for encryption backdoors that would allow them to break into the secure data of
suspected criminals. Simply put, this is a terrible idea.
Some of your most sensitive data sit on the cloud, on the servers of Internet
service providers. Zero-access encryption gives you control over your data
online.
Your email account is a gold mine for hackers. And yet many people still aren’t
taking basic precautions to secure their accounts. Here are five essential steps
for safe email.
Whether you cover the CIA or city hall, journalism is as much about keeping
secrets as exposing them. We created this online security guide to help
democracy’s defenders defend themselves too.
Determining whether a VPN service is trustworthy can be complicated.
Fortunately, there are a few easy steps you can follow to know if a VPN service
can be trusted.
