Just another nerd.
I was looking for a way to backup all of my Google Calendar data, and it turns out to be trivially easy. First, login to Google Calendar. Then, simply visit this URL:
https://www.google.com/calendar/exporticalzip
Google Calendar will then pop up asking you to save a .zip file that contains Ical files with every event on every calendar you are the owner of.
IBM’s Nathan Harrington has written an article outlining how to use the GnuPGP Firefox extension to create encrypted events within Google Calendar. This isn’t just accessing Google Calendar securely, but rather encrypting event details locally before passing that text on to Google Calendar. Anyone who compromises your Google account then would know the time of events, but would only see encrypted text for the actual event detail as in the example below,
That is frackin’ awesome. Now if there were only a GnuPGP plugin for my Blackberry calendar so I could sync the events meaningfully.