Last Sunday a dead hard drive reminded me that the TODO to upgrade and automate my cloud backups needed to be moved from “do when I have time” list — which for me is hard to distinguish from the “never” list — to the “do...
Some months ago, I wrote about using PGP and S/MIME to keep e-mail private. As much as I love the idea of keeping my e-mail private, I rarely use PGP or S/MIME. This is because the people with whom I communicate don’t use PGP or S/MIME. To improve this situation, I’ve...
I can’t think of anyone who would argue that keeping e‐mail private is of little import or an easy task. I use e‐mail as storage for personal information, for authentication, and for communicating when I want the communications to be private. Such private information...
In order to store private data in an iOS Core Data database, there are several methods available for encryption, including: iOS-level data protection based on the device passcode open source projects like SQLCipher for iOS that encrypt the database file However,...
