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Security Housekeeping
In the last few years, we’ve written quite a lot about online security in this space. One of the keys to security is to use secure passwords. Since really good passwords can be difficult to remember,...
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Have Your Accounts Been Compromised?
Having accounts spread hither and yon across the internet, and the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ approach that’s too often taken toward security and privacy, there’s a pretty decent chance that at some point, a service...
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Resisting Surveillance
There are many reasons to start paying increased attention to security and privacy, especially in light of the election. Heck, just today Russian hackers launched a phishing attack at NGOs and policy...
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Securing Your Data
William Gibson has a lovely meditation on privacy, encryption, and history in the New York Times, as he considers the necessary difficulty of linking these terms: In the short term, the span of a...
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Data Security and International Travel
I just found out that I’ve been accepted to present at this summer’s Digital Humanities Conference in Montreal. I’m really excited to be able to talk about the Digital Liberal Arts and Infrastructure,...
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International Travel: A Good Reason to Have Two Google Accounts
We’ve heard quite a lot over the last few months about travelers being asked to unlock their mobile phones—and, in some cases, provide their social media passwords—when entering the United States....
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Backup for Back to School
Cloud-based backup provider Crashplan (which we mentioned in Do You Have a Backup Plan? announced in August that it would no longer offer subscriptions designed for home or personal use. Current...
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Security Week
This has been an exciting week for internet security folks. That’s almost never a good thing. There have been a variety of wild new announcements, including the revelation that cell phone companies...
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Keybase: Crypto for (Almost) Everyone)
Encryption has been written about on ProfHacker a few different times but, in light of the really bad week we’re having security-wise, it seems like a good opportunity to look at a relatively new...
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Some Suggestions for Encrypting Your Email (and Why You Might Want To)
As Lee recently pointed out, email is not a new topic for the Profhacker crowd. It’s monsoon season; the end-of-the-year flood, after all. I imagine most reading this while barely treading water. “Why...
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