Running out of ideas for new a password? Not sure how to make it secure and don’t want to fall victim to an identity thief? Learn about the DOs and DON’Ts of password choice in this handy guide. Before we help you choose a good password, let’s answer the much more straightforward question of what makes a […]
Encryption can be hugely complicated and confusing, so let us break the issue down to a single question: “Who can access my data?”. Unfortunately, with most of the information we send around on the internet, there is simply no way of knowing. This is because it is either sent in plain text – like a postcard – […]
Recent events have made the question of privacy in the age of the internet more pressing than ever. Some people call the leak of NSA practices the biggest negative event in internet lifetime, but most media channels, at least here in Germany, are more focused on the real life spy drama starring Edward Snowden, Greenwald […]
There is something simple and direct about email communication: Almost as soon as we hit ‘send’, the message appears in the recipient’s inbox. Whatever else may happen in between is essentially invisible to us. However, not least since Edward Snowden has revealed the surveillance programs PRISM and Tempora, it has become clear that the question […]