How to Verify a Signal Contact’s Identity (Using the Safety Number) |
- How to Verify a Signal Contact’s Identity (Using the Safety Number)
- How to See Which iPhone Apps Can Access Your Contacts
- How to Make Your Apple Watch Tap Out the Time
- The 10 Best Horror Movies on Netflix (Jan. 2021)
- How to Automatically Move Gmail Messages to a Different Tab
| How to Verify a Signal Contact’s Identity (Using the Safety Number) Posted: 25 Jan 2021 08:46 AM PST  Signal protects all one-on-one and group chats with end-to-end encryption by default. But you still might be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. To stay safe, here's how to verify a Signal contact's identity using a 60-digit safety number. Each contact in Signal has their own unique security code. This is a long, 60-digit numeric code. If you want to verify the end-to-end encryption between you and the contact, all you have to do is match these two pairs of 60-digit codes. But that can be quite a lot, so you can use a QR code to verify as well. RELATED: What Is Signal, and Why Is Everyone Using It? The safety number changes when your contact changes their phone number or reinstalls the Signal app. If the safety number keeps changing frequently, it might be a sign that something is wrong. It could be a man-in-the-middle attack or someone else using the contact's account. This is why Signal recommends that you check and verify the safety number periodically, especially when you're sharing sensitive information with a contact. To get started, open the Signal app on your iPhone or Android smartphone. Next, open the chat that you want to verify the safety number of. Here, tap the contact's profile name from the top.
Now, choose the "View Safety Number" option.
You will see a QR Code at the top of the screen and a 60-digit numeric Safety number at the bottom. This is your Safety Code for the contact. You'll need to ask your contact to share their number.
To share your safety number with them, tap the share icon. The icon will look slightly different on Android.
Here, choose the "Copy" button.
From there, paste the number into the text field for the contact and tap the send button.
If the two safety numbers match, you're golden. If you don't want to manually compare the 60-digit code, you can also use the QR code. This can be done easily if both devices are in the same place. From the "Verify Safety Number" screen, simply tap the QR code.
Now ask the contact to display their Safety Number QR code. Once the QR code is scanned using your phone's camera, Signal will tell you if the code matches. If it does, you can choose to mark the contact as verified using the "Mark as Verified" option.
This will make it easier for you to know when end-to-end encryption is safe and enabled for a contact.
You can repeat this process for other contacts. Signal recommends that you verify the safety number periodically, especially after the contact changes their number or moves devices. Confused between Signal and Telegram? Read our Signal vs. Telegram comparison guide to find out which secure messaging app is best for you.  |
| How to See Which iPhone Apps Can Access Your Contacts Posted: 25 Jan 2021 07:39 AM PST
Few iPhone privacy issues go deeper than access to your Contacts list, which exposes your private web of relationships to a third party, which can then compare the list to its records or potentially share it with others. Here's how to see which apps can access your contacts and how to grant or revoke access as well. To get started, open "Settings" on your iPhone.
In "Settings," tap "Privacy."
In "Privacy," tap "Contacts."
Next, you'll see a list of every installed app that has requested access to your contacts in the past. Beside each one, you'll see a switch that is either turned on or off. If the switch is set to "on," the app can access your contacts. If it's set "off," the app does not currently have access to your contacts.
At any time you can grant or revoke access to your contacts on a per-app basis by tapping the switch next to the app in this list.
Keep in mind that even if you give an app access to your contacts from this list, the app may not automatically know about this change in Settings. If that's the case, you might be able to get an app to consider your contacts list again by forcing the app to restart. In some stubborn cases, uninstalling then re-installing the app may work. If you revoke an app's access using this feature, the app will not have further access to your contacts the moment you flip the switch. But the app may have already uploaded your contact list to its servers, in which case that aspect of your privacy is still in the hands of the company running the app. If you need to remove access to your contacts there, you might be able to do so in the app itself, by contacting the company that runs the app, or by looking in account management settings on services such as Facebook. Good luck!  |
| How to Make Your Apple Watch Tap Out the Time Posted: 25 Jan 2021 06:37 AM PST There are times when it's not possible to look at your Apple Watch, but you still might want to know the time. Here's how you can have your Apple Watch tap out the time using a simple gesture. Apple Watch comes with a feature called Taptic Time. It can read you the time using haptic feedback on your wrist. Once it's enabled, all you have to do is wake up the watch (by lifting your wrist or by tapping the screen), then tap and hold the watch face with two fingers. The Taptic Time feature comes with three different vibration modes:
To set up this feature, press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch and tap the "Settings" app.
Here, select the "Clock" option. It's important to note that this feature won't work if your Apple Watch is set to speak the time. So first, tap the toggle next to the "Speak Time" option to disable the feature. RELATED: How to Silence Your Apple Watch Alternatively, you can use both the Speak Time and Taptic Time features together. When your Watch is in silent mode, it will tap out the time. When it's not in silent mode, it will speak the time instead.
To set up the Taptic Time feature, scroll up in the "Clock" menu and choose the "Taptic Time" option. Tap the toggle next to Taptic Time to enable the feature. Then, choose a mode. As highlighted above, you can choose between "Digits," "Terse," and "Morse Code."
Now that the feature is enabled, go back to the watch face and tap and hold the screen with two fingers to find out the time using taps on your wrist.
Don't want to spend the time finding and customizing that perfect watch face on Apple Watch? Skip the hard work by downloading pre-configured watch faces instead! RELATED: How to Find and Download the Best Apple Watch Faces  |
| The 10 Best Horror Movies on Netflix (Jan. 2021) Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:52 AM PST From beloved classics to Netflix originals, from haunted houses to evil creatures, Netflix has something for every kind of horror fan. Here's a look at the ten best horror movies streaming on Netflix. The Blackcoat's DaughterTwo teenage girls left behind over winter break at a boarding school experience strange behavior in filmmaker Oz Perkins' moody, atmospheric The Blackcoat's Daughter. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka shows her early flair for creepy characters as a possibly unhinged young woman, while Perkins builds a pervasive sense of dread in the snowy setting. The Evil DeadSam Raimi's low-budget horror debut The Evil Dead is still a marvel of independent filmmaking. Five college students accidentally summon demons while vacationing at a remote cabin. In this film, Bruce Campbell's charismatic performance as Ash Williams helped make him a genre star, and Raimi's ingenuity with camerawork and visual effects put him on the path to a lengthy Hollywood career. His HouseA pair of refugees from South Sudan are haunted by traumatic memories as well as an evil spirit from their homeland when they settle into government housing in London. His House blends traditional haunted house spookiness with a meditation on trauma and displacement, putting an engaging (and disturbing) new spin on a familiar kind of story. HushBefore creating the popular Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mike Flanagan directed the tense home-invasion thriller Hush, about a deaf woman (Kate Siegel) fighting off an implacable intruder. Flanagan ingeniously incorporates the main character's deafness into the suspense, placing the audience in her shoes as she fights for her life. The InvitationA dinner party goes very wrong in Karyn Kusama's The Invitation, which starts as a talky drama about former friends and lovers reconnecting before taking a darker turn. Has the host invited everyone over just to eat and converse, or is there a more sinister motive related to a strange cult's doomsday prophecy? The eerie movie teases those possibilities before erupting into intense confrontations and violence. It Comes at NightWhat, exactly, comes at night? Trey Edward Shults' post-apocalyptic movie It Comes at Night never quite answers that question, but it could be any number of dangers faced by a family hiding from a deadly disease that has ravaged the world. When a mysterious stranger arrives seeking help for his own family, the two clans must determine what dangers come from outside, and what dangers come from within. Killer Klowns From Outer SpaceThe title alone should be enough to get you to watch Killer Klowns From Outer Space, which is, of course, about killer clowns from outer space. Aliens resembling clowns come to earth and use circus-themed implements of death (cotton candy cocoons, popcorn guns, etc.) to kill and consume the people of a small town. This bizarre horror-comedy has become a cult classic (or kult klassic) since its 1988 release. Pan's LabyrinthGuillermo del Toro's haunting, beautiful fable Pan's Labyrinth is set in World War II-era Spain, where a young girl discovers a mysterious labyrinth populated by fantastical creatures. Del Toro intertwines the fairy-tale world with the real world of rising fascism in Spain as the mystical beings help the main character fight back against her sadistic military commander stepfather. SweetheartKiersey Clemons is the only person onscreen for most of Sweetheart's running time as the apparent lone survivor of a shipwreck who is stranded on a deserted island. Or is the island actually deserted? Director J.D. Dillard uses the looming threat of a monster from the deep to tell a story about a woman finding her reserves of inner strength and taking her power back. UnfriendedDepicting an entire story solely via the images on a computer screen may sound like a ridiculous gimmick, but the clever, intricately designed horror movie Unfriended pulls it off with its basic but effective story about a group of teenagers targeted for revenge from beyond the grave. The movie perfectly captures the online lives of its characters while also delivering a satisfying and scary ghost story.  |
| How to Automatically Move Gmail Messages to a Different Tab Posted: 24 Jan 2021 11:06 PM PST
Emails can get out of hand very quickly. If you want to keep your Gmail inbox tidy, make sure your emails go to the desired inbox tab by creating rules (called "filters") for them. Here's how it's done. Manually Move Emails to Other TabsGoogle does a pretty great job of sorting emails between the auto-sorted inbox tabs (Primary, Social, Promotions). But you may want to have one of your favorite newsletters that keeps getting tucked away in the Promotions tab sent to the Primary tab instead so that you never miss it. Doing this is as easy as dragging and dropping the email from one tab to another. First, log in to your Gmail account on your desktop. Once you're logged in, click the inbox tab that contains the email that you want to relocate.
Next, just drag and drop the email that you want to move to a different tab. For example, if a newsletter generally goes to the Promotions tab, you might want to move it. To move the email to the Primary tab, just drag and drop the email to the "Primary" tab.
Once it's been moved, a toast message will appear letting you know that the conversation was moved to the destination tab. It will also ask you if you want to move future messages from the sender to the same tab. Click "Yes."
Now, all future emails from that sender will automatically be sorted to the desired tab. However, if you want to do the same for existing emails, you'll need to create a filter. Create Email FiltersYou can create filters to automatically move emails to different inbox tabs. To do this, click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the window.
In the "Quick Settings" menu, click "See All Settings."
You'll now be in Gmail's "Settings" menu. Here, click the "Filters and Blocked Addresses" tab.
In the "Filters and Blocked Addresses" tab, there will be two sections. In the filter section, click "Create a New Filter."
Once that's been selected, a new menu will appear. Here, fill out the criteria for the emails that you want to move:
Once you've input the filter criteria, click "Create Filter."
Next, you'll need to specify where to move the email when your criteria are met. At the bottom of the window, check the box next to "Categorize As" by clicking it, then select the down arrow to display a drop-down menu.
Choose the category that you'd like the emails to be delivered to. We'll choose the "Primary" inbox tab in this example.
Finally, click "Create Filter."
You'll then receive a notification stating that your filter was successfully created. Though certainly a huge step toward organizing your inbox, this is just the beginning. Next, consider creating new folders (known as "labels" in Gmail) and setting rules to have emails placed in those labels as well. RELATED: Forget Inbox Zero: Use OHIO to Triage Your Emails Instead  |
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