Given that enabling PGP encryption is as easy as ticking a few boxes in both Mac OS X and Windows, it’s no surprise that the authorities are now increasing their efforts to combat the scourge of people wanting to keep their private data private. For starters, new Secret Service recruits are given a one-week crash course in computer forensics, presumably so agents will be able to say with… → Read More
Disk encryption, in its current implementation, is a joke. But it’s hardly the software makers’ fault. Princeton researchers have developed a method to defeat a form of disk encryption that’s commonly found on laptops. It relies on the fact that RAM, contrary to popular belief, doesn’t erase automatically when power is cut. Rather, information stored in RAM—here, disk… → Read More
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