The National Security Agency has been known to intercept and collect emails, and with Donald Trump as president, privacy likely isn’t going to get better. For example, he said that Apple should help ...

NEW YORK -- I'm well aware that sending e-mail is no more private than sending a postcard, but who wants to bother with protecting messages? It's so inconvenient. So, too lazy to phone, I e-mail ...

Article 12 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence." It's that last one ...

In our last episode of Private I, I explained the basics of public-key (PK) cryptography, a way to scramble messages in a way that only someone possessing a particular key can decrypt, without that ...

If you think you might ever need to have a truly private email conversation with anyone ever, then you need to start exchanging encrypted messages with people right now about banal day-to-day life.

There are endless utilities available to encrypt files, drives, e-mail, and more using a password, but if you use a simple password, like your dog's name, you might ...