Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online

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Encryption is a safe harbor. It is one of those things that you use sparingly. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) lists using encryption as one of the steps to protecting your online privacy. It is the innermost layer of protection in your strategy of Defense in Depth. Defense in Depth is the concept of providing multiple layers of protection. In the Middle Ages when a threat to your personal security was an advancing army, your outer castle walls were intended to be your first lines of defense, and armed watch guards protecting your inner treasure were your last lines of defense. These days, the more realistic threats are teenage hackers with Internet connections. For personal data, your last line of defense is ...