Yessir this is a two episode week here at PrivacyNowRadio. On Tuesday we posted an interview with Hon. Jay M. Cohen about cybercrime and cyberterrorism, but that episode didn’t have any news in it. Just that just wouldn’t do, we have a special second episode this week.
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The biggest news this week have been the revelations that Dropbox could decrypt your files that you stored with them and that, if presented with legal orders, decrypt the files and hand them over to the government. This is caused a lot of people to change how they use Dropbox (myself included). One great solution is the FileVault within eCrypt.me—and that happens to be my tip of the week!
The other big news of the week is that since iOS 4 came out iPhones and iPad 3G models have been tracking and recording where you’ve been with the device. Worse the information is stored in plain text on your machine. As you’ll hear in the interview segment, governments around the world want answers from Apple about this. For all our sakes, I hope we get one soon. Speaking of interviews, this week I chat again with Brad “Renderman” Haines about both Dropbox and the iPhone tracking issue.
For the news of the week, I’ve decided that I want to share more news with you than just what I talk about in the show, so I’ve created a special public notebook in Evernote where I’ll store all the articles I think are interesting as I’m reading the news. You can read my PrivacyNowRadio notebook on Evernote’s website and even subscribe to it if you’re an Evernote user.
Enjoy the episode and if you’d like to know more about the eCrypt.me FileVault, here’s a handy screencast to show you all about it:
Music is by Derek K. Miller and, yes, he really did write it for me.
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