Why Use Encryption?

Nearly every thing in life these days is password encoded. Your MySpace account, YouTube video account, Email account, Bank Account, etc. Nobody in their right minds would leave these important things containing sensitive information unsecured. This would be an identity thieves nightmare. You do in fact leave something completely unprotected each day without even realizing it; your Internet activity.

Internet activity you ask? Why is this something that needs to be secured and password protected? The truth is, hackers can intercept your transmissions from your computer and trace you right back to the source. A hacker could actually find your house through these signals, and then you’d have more than data insecurity to worry about. Imagine if your child was using the Internet and a hacker traced them back to your house! Also, these hackers can place tracking cookies on your computer and track you all around the Internet.

The worst thing is though that this is hard to trace. The guys doing this stuff are well protected and make a living off of their thievery; they are professionals of an illicit trade. Often times these guys will steal someone’s identity and they won’t know it for quite some time. It is different than an average street burglary; they say “give me the wallet” and you know you are being robbed. While online, at least you don’t have to go through the treachery of a robbery, but have to be mindful of your documents and passwords, as they can be surreptitiously stolen right under your nose and you may only know after you get a ridiculous bill in the mail.

There are ways to get around this though, and ways to better protect yourself. Consider trying to keep all sensitive information stored in only one place; your head. Don’t store this stuff on your computer in case a hacker was to hijack your computer and search through your documents. On the same note, don’t stay signed into a website. This will allow a hijacking hacker to be right on your account, or even just an unruly child who took your computer.

While those are just a few ways to stay safer and more secure online, using an encryption service is by far the best. By paying just a couple dollars a month for an anonymous proxy service, you can kill two birds with one stone; get encrypted and gain anonymous surfing. By gaining anonymous browsing, you can be undetectable online and have your IP address hidden, so you can’t be hacked into. Encryption is when your computer’s data is actually encoded, so if intercepted by some foreign interloper, all it looks like is mush. This is great as a security measure; if the hacker gets through everything else and thinks he is at the gold mine of information, he will be dismayed to find out you have encryption services on your computer; he knows he is not getting anything from this computer!

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