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PRISM got you worried? Seecrypt app promises secure calls and texts

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 10th, 2013)

Want to hide your data from the prying eyes of the US government and its information-gathering program PRISM? A team of South African developers may have an encrypted-communications solution for iOS that'll let you call and text in complete privacy. As noticed by the Daily Caller, the Seecrypt ...

Congressional record states the iPad is "wonderful"

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 16th, 2010)

In giving testimony at a Congressional hearing as to whether he will lead the U.S. Cyber Command, Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander, current Director of the NSA, mentioned that he owned an iPad. Is that relevant to his his future role of defending America from cyber terrorists? Nope. But how ...

Secure your Mac: Do as the Federales do

by Michael Rose (Sep 20th, 2007)

More security notes from the underground TUAW vault. Up until Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you could see your tax dollars at work very readily, as the National Security Agency published OS-specific guidelines for hardening your OS X installation -- mostly commonsense items like "use strong passwords" and ...