New mail protocol will shut out the NSA and prevent snooping on metadata.

Linux users didn’t need the recent NSA eavesdropping scandal to convince them that securing communication was a good idea. For years, free software developers have been creating secure tools that offer similar functionalities to all of those popular but very leaky services with ridiculous names.

Cryptography is an important part of IT security, and OpenSSL is a well-known cryptography toolkit for Linux. Experts depend on OpenSSL because it is free, it has huge capabilities, and it’s easy to use in Bash scripts.

When I was thinking about ways you could rescue your system with Linux, the thought occurred to me: Why not rescue your life? Because that’s what Linux can do for you.

Create secure passwords with the help of a password generator and check for quality at the same time.

Linux Mint Announces mintBox

ownCloud Introduces Version 4

Mozilla Updates Thunderbird

Obnam 1.0 Released

The imminent Windows 8 implementation of UEFI with Secure Boot adds an extra layer of complexity for some Linux users. We look at the problem and two solutions from Fedora and Canonical.

Carry your own Linux with this new hardware-encrypted boot stick.