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Everything You Need to Know About Smartphone Encryption

Here is Everything You Need to Know About Smartphone Encryption The debate over encrypted smartphones and smartphone apps refuses to die down. This past Thursday (Dec. 17), CNN quoted unnamed law-enforcement officials as saying the ISIS terrorists who carried out the Paris massacres in November used the encrypted messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram to plan their attacks. On Saturday (Dec. 19), presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that she hoped law enforcement and Silicon Valley could find common ground on the subject without having to undermine encryption, perhaps by creating "a Manhattan-like project" to solve the problem. And on Sunday (Dec. 20), Apple CEO Tim Cook once again defended his company's use of encryption on CBS's "60 Minutes," stating that he didn't "believe that the tradeoff here is privacy versus national security." We here at Tom's Guide don't have the answer to this dilemma, especially since...

5 Tips to Identify Fake Facebook Accounts

5 Tips to Identify Fake Facebook Accounts Like every other Social networking site out there , Facebook has its share of Pros and cons. Talking about Cons, Facebook has seen a rampant growth in Fake accounts. Most of these Fake Facebook accounts are either created to spread spam and viruses or to dupe unsuspecting users and steal their financial information. While Facebook aims for providing the best and safest Social networking experience for all, unfortunately Facebook cant do much to stop the creation of fake accounts. Out of the 1.28 billion Facebook accounts, today the probability of Fake Facebook accounts can be somewhere near to 20 or 30 percent or even more. There is no way Facebook can manually delete all these Fake accounts or create an program to do so. The only way to help make Facebook Safer for all of us is working together and reporting out any suspicious Facebook accounts . Many cases have been registered in the past where Fake Facebook...