Frank Looking around, I don’t recognize where I am. The last thing I remember is going to bed in my home. Now I’m laying in an open field in my pjs. Sitting up, I see the field is filled with snow. It is indeed cold out and I’m freezing. I stand up and look to the sky. “Why won’t you leave me alone?!” I shout to the sky. I’m mad at whoever is doing this to me. Be it God or one of his angels, I do not know. There has to be a reason for it all. I don’t know what that reason is. What I do know is I’m cold and wet from the snow, best find someplace to dry off. I pick a direction and walk for a while. Eventually I come across a cabin. It’s a standard log cabin with four sides and a roof. Nothing out of the ordinary. I rap on the door with my fist. There’s no answer. Trying the doorknob I find it unlocked, so I enter. There’s a fireplace and a small bed in the corner. I start a fire. It heats the place quite nicely. Taking off my socks, I let them dry out next to the fire. Grabbing a b...
Let’s get down to it, everyone thinks right? I mean who doesn’t. No that wasn’t a question, that was a statement. Learn to read if you want to understand what that was.
So, security. Let’s talk security. It’s always important to be able to secure something. When we want to secure something we should use a program like GPG in order to do that.
The way GPG works is, a user encrypts a document using a public key, and the owner of that key who has a secret key can decrypt the document. It’s really that simple.
Some word processing programs allow you to use a key in your system to encrypt/decrypt a file. Isn’t that something. The program I’m using right now, LibreOffice Writer, allows for this. I didn’t know this until I clicked on Save As… in the File menu. It was an eye opener. I know what I’ll be using it for.
Why is security important? Well in this day and age, you have to secure your things. If you don’t? You’ll be in trouble someday when someone who isn’t nice comes along and steals all of your things. It’s quite that simple.
So the short of it all is to secure your things. Do it now before it’s too late.
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