Several weeks ago I was sitting at the dining room table with a family friend going through a stack of documents and letters. Her husband had passed away suddenly some weeks before, and I was doing the best I could to help her untangle the paperwork and understand what was what. This unfortunate scene made [...]

It’s too comical to be true. A few months back, when I wrote an article warning about inadequate attempts at sanitizing PDF documents, I thought that any organization serious about censoring documents would not make such a basic error. Especially not a government agency, after the military had been caught by this pitfall.
Apparently this is [...]

A few months ago I wrote an article that touched upon the problems inherent in attempts to sanitize documents before sending them to the enemy—perhaps to remove competitor’s names or trade secrets.
I was reading a post on a board I frequent where a person was describing exactly this kind of activity—removing sensitive information from PDF [...]

A nastygram from my ISP let me know that I needed to take action to lock down my home network. In this article I discuss using a spare router in a somewhat unusual daisy chain configuration in order to banish the teenagers and all of their wifi devices to their own network.

Anyone who has kids in their home worries about how easy it is to access the seamier side of the Internet, even if by accident. Indeed, it is thrust upon us in our email in-boxes daily in the form of misspelled spam with links that only a fool would click.
Another issue altogether is the spam [...]

Do you ever send documents to other people that might have … sensitive information embedded in them?
Not everyone who works with documents in the home will run into this problem, but sooner or later you are probably going to find yourself in a situation where you would like to email someone a useful document that [...]

Many of us have smartphones these days that hold substantial quantities and varieties of data. What happens to that data and how you replace it are two key questions to consider in the event that a mobile telephone is lost.
If you haven’t thought about it much before, why not take a few moments to consider the factors involved and any changes you might want to make to help minimize the stress from such an event.

 
A list of several useful hardware and software tools with which to arm yourself before you attack the file cabinet.
When I first became interested in woodworking, I checked out several books on the subject from the library. Invariably, within the first two or three chapters, there was an illustrated list of desirable hand tools for [...]

Those tiny USB drives we so casually toss about are convenient and easy to lose. Here’s some thoughts on making sure you don’t lose your secrets to strangers.
While my family was on vacation over the holidays, I managed to calmly back our rental car into a concrete column in a parking garage, denting the rear [...]

I was just reading an article entitled Backup Basics — Or, How to Avoid Using Data Recovery Services! from Dr. Greg Mulhauser’s site. He followed this up with a second article: One Example of a (Hopefully!) Sound Backup Strategy.
From the original article:
What would you do if all your practice data suddenly disappeared? Data recovery services exist to help extract [...]