I thought it was satire at first and thought, how long before they start going after stereotypes? Then I saw it was just that one person and thought damn someone misconfigured their backups and lost their job.

You can “sign” a message with PGP so that whoever receives the link you sent knows it’s from you and only you. This ensures scammers can’t fake your identity.

They’re talking about PGP encryption. It’s creates a private key for you and a public key you share with every one. Whoever want to send you a message encrypts it with your public key. The only way to decrypt it is your private key. pgp vid

Currently in college. They are agnostic as it’s all turned in on PDF files, quizzes on browser, etc but my online classes require I install some root kit program to make sure I’m not cheating and it detects if it’s on a VM. I talked to IT and they let me borrow a laptop with windows. Slow as hell, but I only need it for the online tests so 4 times a semester.