So, security and privacy have been in the news a lot lately, particularly with Apple\u2019s fight against the FBI over accessing data on an iPhone. This is something that I pay attention to, and try to make sure I have the option to do, not because I feel I\u2019m doing anything that needs to be hidden, but because I believe that personal privacy is important, and because I don\u2019t think the government (or Facebook, or Apple, or Google, or any other company) really needs to have unfettered access into my life.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m a little curious how many people I know actually take steps to protect their communications. I\u2019ve only seen a few people actually mention using overtly privacy-conscious applications, and though I have a few installed, since I don\u2019t know of that many other people that bother, they don\u2019t really get used all that much.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what I\u2019m set up with at the moment, in case anyone\u2019s interested. I\u2019m also open to suggestions for other possibilities.<\/p>\n
For email, I have Apple Mail on my desktop computer set up to use PGP encryption (through the GPG Tools<\/a> suite), and have iPGMail<\/a> on my iPhone and iPad so that I can en\/de-crypt messages when mobile (it\u2019s a little kludgy, but workable).<\/p>\n For messaging, I have both the Signal<\/a> and Telegram<\/a> messaging apps on my iPhone, both of which boast secure end-to-end encryption for chats. I can be reached through each of those via my phone number, which either you have, or can be asked for, since I tend not to post that entirely publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s what I\u2019m set up with at the moment, in case anyone\u2019s interested. I\u2019m also open to suggestions for other possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2033,2043,2038],"tags":[3498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}