Paperspace: Your full computer in the cloud

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

I'd forgotten that I signed up to test the BETA version of this service about a year ago and I finally got an invite over the weekend and started playing around with it.  VDI is not new but it's now becoming more affordable for the consumer and they offer some ...

Gmail’s new security indicators

Thursday, February 11th, 2016

Google added two new security indicators to its email service Gmail which reveal TLS encryption support and whether the sender could be authenticated. Many popular email services, including Gmail, support TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption to protect data while it is in transit. TLS is only useful if both the sending and ...

Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android

Monday, November 2nd, 2015

Since it first appeared in Apple’s App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended—and apparently used daily—by no less than Edward Snowden himself. Now its creator is bringing that same form of ultra-simple smartphone encryption to Android. On ...

First Let’s Encrypt certificate installed and tested.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2015



Windows 10 Upgrade Spam Carries CTB-Locker Ransomware

Monday, August 3rd, 2015

In the week since a free upgrade to Windows 10 was made available, users have learned a of about a host of built-in privacy and security issues, the most troubling being a native feature called Wi-Fi Sense that grants access to your Wi-Fi network to contacts stored in a host of ...