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Apple Patent Tips OS X Siri; Yahoo, Google Encrypt Email; U.S. Web Speeds
2014-08-11 19:37:55| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
From Apple's patent for a desktop Siri to Yahoo and Google's joint email encryption project, here's what you missed over the weekend.
How to Encrypt a Windows 8 PC Drive
2014-03-12 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Real-life events -- the disclosures from website WikiLeaks; Edward Snowden's leaks of classified government documents to media outlets; credit card hijacks by the server load; and even Facebook's stumbles over its privacy policy explanation to the masses -- have created a general sense of unease when it comes to privacy these days, even at the consumer level.
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How to Encrypt Your Email
2013-12-05 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Some years ago, an antinuclear activist named Phil Zimmermann created a data encryption program for computers. He designed a key-generation and encryption-and-decryption system called PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, for the bulletin board systems that were the precursors to forums, email and the Web. This algorithmic scrambling of information has played an important part in the growth of the Internet.
Microsoft to encrypt services, notify customers of government data requests
2013-12-05 13:19:52| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft moved to reassure business and government customers worldwide that it is committed to informing them of legal orders related to their data, and will fight in court any "gag order" that prevents it from sharing such information with customers. The company also plans to encrypt customers' information moving between its data centers, with plans to complete the project by the end of 2014.
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NSA Spying Prompts Yahoo to Encrypt All Products
2013-11-19 02:40:24| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Amidst reports that the NSA has been spying on server traffic as well as email and contact lists, Yahoo on Monday pledged to extend encryption to all Yahoo products by early next year.
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