TextPad is a fully-featured text editor meant to serve not only as a replacement for Microsoft's Notepad program but also as a replacement for other text-based code editors. It is compatible with any ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Silent Circle is launching its secure file sharing and text messaging app, Silent ...

Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means ...

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection ...

I am starting to encrypt all of the backups to the tape. Currently I am using AxCrypt (free) and a logoff batch script to<BR>1. Connect to network share<BR>2. Encrypt & Compress all files in a ...

Mobile phone users are becoming more savvy to the potential security risks of standard, unencrypted text messaging and wary of government intrusion into everyday communications. Some consumers require ...

There’s been a steep rise in the number of data leak incidents. Many agencies are directly tapping into the servers of major internet companies to access users’ personal information without their ...

One thing your iPhone could be better at: sending secret encrypted messages (aka for sexting and/or illicit relationships). The regular messages app leaves everything hanging out in the open! Text ...

Blogger Vincent Cheung says he wants to publish private text on his weblog sometimes, so he devised a clever way to encrypt text with Javascript inside his posts. Not quite sure when and why you'd ...