The individual who posted the C-Net top ten missed the crypto-related parts of that issue. (I guess the humor section is all that people read on C-Net...) Here is what he missed...
Hook up your new system to the Net, and use it to remake yourself. Get a virtual nose ring. Program your avatar with all the attributes you wish you had. On the Internet, your image is up to you. What will yours be? Read Editor-in-Chief Christopher Barr's views on online identity:
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Voices/Barr/091696/index.html
Maybe you're not ready to share your identity. Maybe that's the furthest thing from your mind. If you've got secrets to keep, you need to know about Pretty Good Privacy, the de facto encryption standard for email. Our tutorial will tell you how to get PGP software and how to use it:
http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Privacy/index.html
Then be sure to read our update on mover and shaker Philip Zimmerman, the guy who invented PGP:
--- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."