News about how our information is being intercepted, or how our computers can be compromised either by hackers or by back doors built into it by the vendor for whatever reason. This means that our information and rights are under constant attack, meaning that we need to defend ourselves and be aware on how to protect our computers.
This where free and open source software and strong encryption tools comes in, since this combination means that the software is our best bet that is safe and it doesn't have any back doors that could compromise our information stored on it. The encryption can give us two locks, one is that it if someone gets the information we have, they can't read it since they won't have key to it's decryption. On the other hand, encrypting the information we send over the Internet, means that if it's intercepted it will be unreadable to the people who did so.
Depending on proprietary software, and not encrypting our information, is the best way to loose control of our information and to give away our privacy away. There is always a risk that we can get our system compromised or that our privacy is intruded without our consent, but with by using free and open source software along side encryption we can minimize that risk.
Now, more than ever, it's time to start doing these two things.
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