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How to Encrypt Your Files in the Cloud Using Rclone

Rclone comes with a crypt function that allows you to encrypt files before sending them to the cloud. Learn how to use it.

By Ramces Red – Jan 20, 2022

Why Encryption Is Not Working On Windows 11 Home

Why Encryption Is Not Working on Windows 11 Home, and How to Fix It

Learn what Modern Standby is and how it fits into the equation.

By Gaurav Bidasaria – Nov 25, 2021

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What Is Apple’s iCloud+ Private Relay

Apple will introduce Private Relay in iOS 15. Let’s take a look at what Private Relay is and what it will do for you as an Apple customer.

By David Joz – Jul 21, 2021

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9 Signal Features You Should Start Using If You Just Switched from WhatsApp

If you have switched to Signal, then you may want to get acquainted with what the app has to offer. Here are the best Signal features you should use.

By Alexandra Arici – Feb 3, 2021

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Popular Wireless Doorbells May Carry Cybersecurity Risk

Wireless doorbells aren’t necessarily the low-risk option. 11 popular wireless doorbells failed basic cybersecurity tests.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 25, 2020

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FTC Settlement: Zoom Lied About End-to-End Encryption

Zoom has reached a settlement with the FTC, who claimed the company lied for years to users about utilizing end-to-end encryption.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 10, 2020

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Zoom Now Includes End-to-End Encryption

Zoom announced that it now includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in its suddenly-popular team meeting software.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 28, 2020

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4 of the Best Secure USB Storage Drives to Protect Your Data

The files stored in a USB drive are generally not secured. Fortunately, there are secure USB drives that you can use to protect your data.

By Ryan Lynch – Sep 8, 2020

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Use NordLocker for Safe File Encryption and Storage

NordLocker is a safe file encryption and storage solution which gives you the best desired results in terms of privacy using end-to-end encryption.

By Sayak Boral – May 21, 2020

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Use NextDNS for More Secure and Private Browsing

NextDNS is a service you should be using: it gives you full control over your privacy, bypasses censorship, makes your requests more secure, and more.

By Andrew Braun – Apr 29, 2020

Security Padlock Feature

What Does the Padlock in My Browser’s Address Bar Mean?

Sometimes the padlock in your browser’s address bar changes color, gets an extra symbol layered on top of it, or turns into text. What does it really mean?

By Andrew Braun – Dec 17, 2019

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iPGMail: The Best Way to Encrypt Emails on iOS

If you are looking to encrypt and send secure emails in iOS, iPGMail is the most full-featured and well-reviewed of the PGP apps on the App Store. Here is how it works.

By Matt Milano – Sep 7, 2019

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Use M3 Bitlocker Loader for Mac to Open Bitlocker-Encrypted Drives

While BitLocker is an encryption feature to help keep your files safe, M3 BitLocker Loader for Mac allows you to use those files on systems that don’t support BitLocker.

By Kris Wouk – Sep 3, 2019

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What Are Samsung Secure Folders and How to Create Them

If you are using a Samsung phone, there is a Samsung Secure Folders feature that allows you to keep files private. Learn how you can use Samsung secure folders to store your files.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 31, 2019

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How to Easily Encrypt Files without Password Using Cloak Encrypt

Cloak Encrypt is a file encryption tool that can encrypt and decrypt files without any passwords. It is available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Here’s how it works.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 26, 2019

News Us End To End Encryption Featured

US Considering Outlawing End-to-End Encryption

Now that encryption is being used by more and more tech companies, the United States is considering banning end-to-end entryption.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 1, 2019

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How to Change Your LUKS Encryption Passphrase

LUKS is the native encryption option on Linux systems, and unlike many other encryption solutions, you can change your LUKS encryption passprase. Learn how.

By Nick Congleton – Mar 29, 2019

How Secure Is Your Stolen Encrypted Data?

Chances are that some of your data has been stolen. There’s a good chance it was encrypted, but how secure is your stolen encrypted data?

By Andrew Braun – Mar 26, 2019

Hashing vs. Encryption: How Your Password Is Being Stored in Server

There are various methods used to safely store your password in a web server. Here we show how password hashing, encryption and storage works.

By Andrew Braun – Mar 21, 2019

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How to Encrypt Files with Gocryptfs

Gocryptfs is an encrypted overlay filesystem and encrypts files individually using chunked AES-GCM. Learn how you can encrypt your files with gocryptfs here .

By Matthew Muller – Mar 6, 2019

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In 1965, Joe Sutter’s Boeing team began shaping the 747 around a future they thought would belong to supersonic jets, lifting the cockpit onto a hump so the nose could open for cargo once the giant subsonic passenger plane had outlived its brief moment

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Vintage keyboard with tactile buttons paired with a modern digital interface on screen.

Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs wanted users to reach for the mouse first. Then Apple quietly sold the missing keys as an accessory.

Jun 8, 2026

When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price.

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Flat lay of travel essentials including a passport, map, smartphone, and pop camera.

Masahiro Hara and Denso engineers built the QR code in 1994 to help Toyota suppliers scan car parts from any angle, then kept the patent open until phone cameras and a 2020 pandemic turned the factory square into a daily ritual on restaurant tables

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In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents’ Baltimore home, testing an interactive operating system on a 250-pound machine in the living room and becoming the first known person to use a personal computer at home, twelve years before the Apple II reached buyers

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Hands manipulating wires on breadboards for electronic prototyping.

When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow, she handed each of them a piece of wire 11.8 inches long, the exact distance light travels in a billionth of a second, and told them to keep it in their pocket as a reminder that physics, not laziness, sets the limit.

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