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22 Jun 2009Windows BitLocker’s false sense of security
In this piece Tony Bradley provides some great insight into how Windows BitLocker "drive" encryption works in Vista and Windows 7. Actually BitLocker is not drive - or whole-disk - encryption after all...As Tony states it's more like whole-volume encryption.Keep this in mind when securing your laptop and mobile drives. This could create a pretty serious false-sense of security that everything's locked down when indeed it's not. Same as the ...
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21 May 2009
My CNN TV appearance – yet another mobile drive debacle
CNN's Mike Ahlers and Elaine Quijano put together an intriguiging segment about a lost hard drive from the National Archives for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer television show I appeared on last night. The hyperlink goes to the actual article...the video hasn't been posted yet and they're telling me it may not be. I hope you had the chance to see it live last night. If it gets posted ...
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20 May 2009
I’m going to be on CNN at 5pm ET today
I received a call from the producer of the CNN show The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer today and ended up doing a TV interview. It's about the National Archive story that just came out regarding and external hard drive that recently went missing.Wonder if it was encrypted like I've ranted about here and elsewhere in the past? Probably not.It's going to be on in the 5pm ET hour on ...
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