Volume 28, Issue 12
Prez Says for December 2024
Welcome to December, the month of Santa Claus, candy canes, lots of gifting, Christmas, Hanukkah, and football. I hope you and your family have an enjoyable Holiday season.
On December 3rd, we will have our Tech Corner and General Meeting in person at the North Bellevue Community Center and via Zoom. Our General Meeting program will be "Keeping Your Data Private with Vera Crypt" presented by Mark Schulman. VeraCrypt is one of the most popular "on-the-fly" encryption programs, which enables you to store sensitive data on your PC in an encrypted format but to access that data normally without having to constantly think about encrypting and decrypting that data. VeraCrypt is based on the older TrueCrypt application and is free and open source. Mark Schulman will be discussing these topics in this presentation:
-Creating and using encrypted containers
- Encrypting flash drives
- Encrypting your laptop's hard drive
- Backing up your encrypted data
- Caching passwords
- Using hidden containers
Do you have questions about one of your computer devices or software? Join us in-person or via Zoom at 6:00 PM on December 3rd for our Technology Corner led by Andy Peck. December’s topics are QR code hazards, DNA tests, NSA security tips, AI matters, etc.
If you want to learn more about Linux, visit Steve Herber at our Linux Special Interest Group hybrid meeting (in-person and Zoom combined) starting at 6:30 PM on December 10th. Bring your Linux laptop to the Linux SIG. The Linux Group also has a build-your-own server project Zoom meeting at 7:00 PM on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of December.
To keep up with technology, visit https://www.techforsenior.com to learn about their Monday morning meetings (9:00 AM PT), their Newsletter, and their Facebook page.
Be sure to download all security updates on all of your devices.
Please consider joining us at the North Bellevue Community Center for our December meeting.
I will be doing some traveling in December, thus I may miss some in-person KEGS meetings.
We still need a space to store and sort items for our Auction; a garage that holds cars that can be moved out for one half day in June would be great.
We welcome visitors! Please encourage your friends to join KEGS, the Linux SIG, or the Digital imaging SIG.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
