Category: 921: The Glorious iCloud.com and FMIP, Security by Obscurity – The Myth of Hiding your SSID, Personal “Security” in Today’s Tech-Savvy World

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Time and time again, I am confronted with the harsh realities of personal security in today’s tech-savvy world. In many ways I feel like we’ve lost some ground on how we manage our private data, and I would like to discuss here some of the observations and conclusions that I’ve discovered in my search for…

There is this myth that hiding your SSID is a form of keeping your wifi network safe from malicious intent…this is a lie! Service Set Identifier was never meant to be a form of security, it was designed to be a network identifier. Even when you “hide” your SSID, your router is broadcasting information whether…

There’s a lot of really nifty stuff at “*iCloud.com.*”:https://www.icloud.com I’ve watched it grow over the years since it was released with iOS 5 a few years back. Personally, the email and Find My iPhone are the features I find myself using all the time on the web interface of iCloud. Find My iPhone (FMIP) is…

_Hello Fellow Tech Enthusiasts,_ We’re on the verge of spring cleaning season, and before that whole rigamarole starts, I thought we should all get ahead of the pack and have a good ol’ backup conversation. I consistently find that there is a very solid feeling of security when a user has two or three backups…