Enabling Encryption and Harden Your Setting to Protect Your Privacy.

Securing your data on device and on transit between the network.

This is fourth part of the series How to stay/safe secure in digital life.

Before getting started, let’s first understand what is Encryption and why it matters for you privacy and security.

Encryption is a technique in Computer World that is used for making your data ( SMS, Photos, files, etc. ) secure so that your or to whom is given access can only see that. How does this even happen, Let me explain it -> When you encrypted your data ( it can be in any form ) using an encryption algorithm (some kind magic/technique), it converts your data into random character ( in some kind of mysterious form) and it can only reverse/ decrypt by using the Encryption key / Password that you have access.

And you don’t need to worry about all these technical terms, you just have to remember that one key/password using which you perform encryption.

By now you must have understood how encryption happens, but you will be thinking, why you should care about that? And the best example is that ( let’s assume you lost your phone somewhere or a thief stole it from you, if you have enabled encryption on your device thief can access data without the PIN or a password using which you have enabled encryption on your device). read more