“What’s the buzzword this week? It’s not Constitution. It’s not Supreme Court,” Jeffrey Mincey writes for Mac360. “But both might enter into the public’s consciousness over the next few months thanks to this word. Encryption.”
“Yes, the spooks and lesser elected governmental officials want Apple to unlock the iPhone so they can snoop around. You know. Just in case,” Mincey writes. “Mac users have files, too. If yours are valuable or potentially incriminating then you’ll appreciate all the encryption options to put your files out of reach by hackers, spooks, crooks, or judges.”
“Apple makes all kinds of encryption options available to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users. For Mac users who want to store files online where Google and snoops (is there really a difference?) can peruse at will, you’ll want some kind of encryption,” Mincey writes. “Enter Crypt Sync Files [US$7.99 via the Mac App Store]… This inexpensive and easy to use Mac app encrypts files or zips up files and protects the archive with a password. Your choice.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Better safe than sorry.
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Timely!
More interested in Apple solutions.
Hard to know for sure if anything I buy through another party is trustworthy or effective.
Disk Utility is free and and does a great job at this very thing.
Set up a mountable encrypted disk image for a few files or down to single file.
Yup, built into OS X. What more do you need?
Apple already has a way to encrypt files/folders. See http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/encrypt-mac-folder/
“This inexpensive and easy to use Mac app encrypts files or zips up files and protects the archive with a password. Your choice”
Or, you know… You could just go to System Preferences, and turn on FileVault for no additional cost.
-jcr
It’s terrible that we have reached a point where we fear our own government, the US government, so much that we have to encrypt things that we otherwise would not have.
It is clear now that when they took down those two towers some 15 years ago, that they truly did win.
Muslims crashed those planes into the twin towers. Political correctness prevented them from being stopped: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003149.html
Starting with a passionate hatred for George W Bush is a poor foundation for a conspiracy theory. If Gore were president it would have never been raised as an issue.
Oh dear, spreading your willful ignorance again eh, ‘teacher’?
There is no need for any conspiracy ‘theory’ when the facts of the matter prove that much of the tale we were told about 9/11 was a direct and deliberate LIE. It’s suckers like you who hold back the world of humanity from sanity.
http://www.911truth.org
Question everything. Trust facts, not rhetoric. You are #1.
Apple provides an excellent way to store everything you specifically want protected on your Mac. I personally recommend password protected 256-bit AES encrypted sparse bundles. I have mine set up in Users & Groups: Login Items to open when I boot my Macs. I share the image between my Macs via a cloud service, in my case DropBox.
From Apple:
How to create a password-protected (encrypted) disk image
Learn how to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image.