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Cryptographers devote their careers to the science of securing your communications. Twenty-four-year-old Nadim Kobeissi has devoted his to the art of making that security as easy as possible. His software creations like Cryptocat and Minilock are meant to encrypt instant messages or shared files with three-letter-agency-level protection, but with user interfaces that require Lincoln-Log-level skills. Now he's pulling elements of all his dead-simple apps into what he describes as his biggest release yet, a single platform designed to encrypt everything you and any group of collaborators do on the desktop.

A teenager has been given a 16-week prison sentence in a Young Offenders Institution for refusing to give up the encryption key for his computer. Interesting articles that raises questions about police powers, protection against self-incrimination, the right to silence, and the availability of strong encryption.

"Even though a hard drive with a terabyte (or 1,000 gigabytes) of storage can hold thousands of photographs, songs and movies and costs less than $100, storing your files in a distant commercial data center, encrypted and secure, increasingly makes more sense. Cloud backups are appealing for another reason: as computing becomes more mobile - on laptops, tablets and smartphones - you need to have reliable access to the data anywhere over an Internet connection. "

Minister of State in the Ministry of Defense made a statement that state-owned electronic equipment manufacturer for the armed forces has been advised not to source critical encryption components from China.

BBC article about insurgent's apparent ability to tap into the video feeds sent by the Predator and Reaper drones. Apparently nobody thought to encrypt the feeds.

A series of activities designed to teach technical concepts without the use of computers. Although designed for Computer Science several are relevant for ITGS: for example, compression, public key encryption, and the Turing Test.

Users of the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch have been instructed to change their passwords amid fears the site has been hacked. Twitch told users that their names and phone numbers were among the details feared to have been leaked. It said it had deleted passwords, which were encrypted, and disconnected users' accounts from Twitter and YouTube.