Technology Resources
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Stop Email Hacking with Security Keys
With talk of email hacking you might wonder if your own email account is susceptible. The ideal email environment is an end-to-end encrypted email service, in which only the sender and receiver can read email messages. You have likely encountered such services before, as when you receive an email from your doctor. We wrote a little bit about encryption keys a few months ago, but the basic principle for encrypted email is that the sender and recipient have a pair of cryptographic keys: one private key and one public key each. The sender and recipient share their public keys, keeping their private keys secret. The sender encrypts his message using the recipient’s public key, and sends it to the recipient. The recipient gets the message and decrypts it using his own private key. Of course, this is the ideal situation. The fact is: it’s far more likely that you’re using Gmail.
Apps for Charity
Usually people start thinking about charitable donations at the end of the year, but there’s no reason why you can’t give back during the summer months too. Even better, we’ve got some recommendations for apps that help you perform a social good that can be adopted into your daily routine. All three are free and all rely on sponsorships for the donations, meaning that you don’t have to spend any of your own cash. Best of all, they require only a little more effort than you expend in your daily activities.
Why You Should Never Let Your Domain Expire
Last week, we wrote about customers who have let their hosting package expire. This week, we’re writing about an equally important topic: domain names. Your domain registrar is required to send out a renewal reminder thirty days and five days before your domain expires. Perhaps those emails are easy to overlook when you’re getting lots of other automated emails, but it’s worth paying attention. If there are carrots and sticks in this situation, the stick is that the stakes of losing your domain name are pretty high. The carrot, however, is that GoDaddy and some other registrars will often offer you a discount when you’re renewing early.
