by jnelson | Nov 7, 2015 | News, Resources
It is isn’t easy being a freelancer these days, not that it ever has. But working for oneself has now become a very common thing in our modern “sharing” economy. Not only does a freelancer need to have the drive and vision of an entrepreneur, the...
by jnelson | Oct 16, 2015 | News, Resources
With hackers, surveillance, and security flaws everywhere, there seems to be little good news about the Internet these days. Therefore, when anything truly positive happens, it should be posted everywhere, if not actually shouted from the rooftops. Today, that rare...
by jnelson | Sep 12, 2015 | News, Resources
Southwest Cyberport is proud of our customers. After all, they’re smart enough to use a friendly, local ISP with cutting-edge technology and good tech support, so they must know something. 😉 One of the ways we show it is by offering website owners and other...
by Jamii Corley | Jul 31, 2015 | Encryption, How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Resources, Security, Tips and Tricks
In our last post we showed you how to install the Mailvelope browser extension and generate PGP public and private keys, and how to import someone’s public key. Now we’d like to actually use this structure to send encrypted email. At this point if you use...
by Jamii Corley | Jul 31, 2015 | Encryption, How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Resources, Security, Tips and Tricks
In that last few years we’ve come to see more and more that things we thought were private, simply aren’t. Whether it is companies that want to sell you things, the government wanting to find terrorist plots, or thieves looking for personal data to aid...
by jnelson | May 8, 2015 | Encryption, News, Resources, Security
Email and texting are great modern conveniences, but they were never intended to be secret. Nowadays, with hackers dumping stolen messages on the Web and the government recording everything, these methods are decidedly risky for sending any information that must...