Take Control of iOS & iPadOS Privacy and Security, 4th Edition

Protect Privacy and Security on a Network

When your data is sent over a network, particularly and largely over the internet, there’s no way of knowing the route it takes from your device to a server or other person’s phone, tablet, computer, or gaming system on the other end. For many years, we just lived with this uncertainty, reserving encryption for e-commerce, financial services, and account logins over the web.

But about a decade ago, it became crystal clear through whistleblowers, leaks of government information, and independent researchers that governments, criminals, and other hostile parties were huffing heavily from the data pipes used to carry our information around.

The only solution was to encrypt data as it entered and left our ...