Regardless of how you might feel about NSA whistle blower Edward Snowdon, his revelations have sparked much needed discussions on ways to protect our privacy.  With this in mind, Google is encouraging email users to ensure that the emails they are sending are encrypted, so anyone monitoring the Internet would be unable to read them.

There is a lot of information out about the Heartbleed bug in the news – what sites have been compromised, how to protect yourself, and if you should change your passwords or wait until you are notified by vendors that the bug has been patched before you make the update. Mashable.com posted an informative article