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By best approximation, today is the anniversary of the greatest security breach in history – the Trojan horse! The strategy has proved so clever and effective, two thousand years it is still being emulated by computer viruses.

As a rule, I have always encrypted my personal files with PGP Disk or Apple’s Encrypted Disk images. With the government now challenging our digital 5th amendment rights, should everybody start doing the same?

Although I’m not convinced this is a great idea yet, many of my friends have already embraced the OpenID technology. O’Reilly has a great article about the pros and cons of OpenID to help you cut through the hype.

Pretty Good Privacy is celebrating 15 years of public encryption. Philip Zimmerman – who gave us PGP in 1991 – is one of a group of people that fought to share encryption with the masses.