An excellent technical article on the pitfalls to be avoided when buying cryptographic products.
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html#snakeoil
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E-books
We’ve pored through years of back issues, picking the best tips, to create these ebooks:
- PC Maintenance Guide
- PC Security Guide
- Windows 7 Guide Vol 1
- Windows 7 Guide Vol 2
- Win XP Survival Guide
Top-scoring articles in the past 12 months
- Leaving long cookie trails throughout the Web 5.00
- Windows-like security for Android devices 5.00
- Win7′s no-reformat, nondestructive reinstall 4.53
- The sorry tale of the (un)Secure Sockets Layer 4.42
- RPV: Win7′s least-known data-protection system 4.33
- Recovery: the last step in total data security 4.30
- Time for a .NET update we can’t ignore 4.30
- Getting the most from Windows Search — Part 1 4.25
- Revising printing habits saves money and trees 4.25
- Upgrades end in erratic, partial hangs 4.25
- Pros and cons of a ‘keyfile’ password 4.21
- Beating back Duku and a plethora of other threats 4.20
- Office 2007 gets its final service pack 4.19
- Putting Registry-/system-cleanup apps to the test 4.19
- One year and 99 security bulletins later 4.18
- 1.8TB external drive goes down hard 4.17
- Don’t pay for software you don’t need — Part 3 4.16
- Internet Explorer gets another round of patches 4.15
- Is your free AV tool a ‘resource pig?’ 4.15
- Vacation’s over; it’s a big round of patches 4.15
- Remote access leads to remote attacks 4.15
- Keeping you up to date: say no to .NET — again 4.14
- Take control of Google’s privacy policy settings 4.14
- Office File Validation patch leads to problems 4.14
- The advanced system-recover toolkit 4.13
- New “419″ scam involves PayPal and Western Union 4.12
- Readers’ best personal-privacy tips 4.11
- Getting the most from Windows Search — Part 2 4.11
- Re-examining Dropbox and its alternatives 4.10
- Easily edit Windows’ right-click context menus 4.09
