When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Think email encryption is only for major corporations with secrets to hide? Think again. I'll show you why secure email has become a practical privacy upgrade for anyone who spends time online.

Machine automation threatens to eliminate any residual human element left in mass surveillance, distilling it down to algorithms and search tools watching for keywords. Depending on where you stand on ...

You’ve probably heard that using standard email is like sending a message on the back of a postcard. Anybody who handles it can read the message. And you may have thought, “Who cares? It's not that ...