Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, December 10, 2010,
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Security
Communication via social networks - twitter, facebook etc. - where only authorized users will be able to read.
I haven't got my head around this resource and its full potential within the learning environment but, being able to communicate via social networks with a degree of privacy, has to be attractive.
How does it work:
1. Type your text (or copy-paste)
2. Set user name/password pair for the note
3. Get the software generated short link for the note
Posted by John Dalziel on Saturday, November 6, 2010,
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Security
pdfs are one of the most popular document formats as, regardless of platform (apple, windows, lynux etc.), they can be accessed using free pdf readers.
However securing pdfs is not that easy. Learning providers (especially smaller ones), practitioners and learners alike, won't want to purchase the relatively expensive Adobe Acrobat software just to encrypt their documents; so this is where PDFProtect comes in.
PDFProtect is a free online tool that lets users easily password protect PDF...
Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
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Security
Using mozaiq practitioners and learners can hide secret, encrypted messages inside an
image that will be invisible to the naked eye and undetectable to
everything but careful mathematical analysis.
Even if detected, the
message will be...
stored encrypted using a password of your choice;
all but impossible to read!
Hiding a message
like this is known as steganography; part art form, part science
and many different methods to do it. The Wikipedia article on steganography provid...
Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, March 14, 2010,
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Security
Relive one of its most-enduring pop culture elements of the classic TV show "Mission: Impossible". What worries me is the large number of you who have no idea what I'm talking about!
Named "This Message Will Self Destruct", this website empowers users to send out an eMail messages that will be deleted upon being delivered and read just once by the recipient.
Further safety is ensured by the fact that...
messages are actually encrypted before they are sent; and