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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Nothing is absolute in security.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

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Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

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Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

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