I’ve just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it’s another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory — p...

Higher storage capacities in external HDD and wider adoption of such products often can lead to security nightmares, as most users simply neglect to encrypt their data, theft of such valuable data, especially among corporations, is a major risk. Lenovo’s ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive is ...

I am going to upgrade Wordpress to the latest version.  This might break some things. Update: I just updated wordpress, Mediawiki, and a few other things, like the theme.  Everything seems to be working… I changed my Wiki URL from docs.cdrum.com to wiki.cdrum.com.  I am not sure why I origi...

As I am dangerously running low on hard disk space (I have 2 disks in my PC, a 320 GB and a 500 GB disk).  I decided I wanted to invest in a 1TB disk - my first ever. I decided on the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11.  (model number ST31000333AS)  Pricewatch is telling me it’s around US$125 for an...

After slapping an Intel X25-M solid state drive in my MacBook Pro I received a few inquiries from readers asking if it was safe to use PGP Whole Disk Encryption with SSDs being known for having limited lifespans. I reviewed PGP WDE for OS X two months ago and fell in love with it; utter simplicity, ...

Vista includes two encryption technologies: Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker Drive Encryption. In this series of articles, you will learn how to set up both technologies in Vista. To use BitLocker Drive Encryption (assuming you are not using hardware cryptography) you need to first configu...

Filed under: news Piratbyrån and their hearties from The Pirate Bay are on a pan-European summer journey that will end at the Manifesta art biennial in Italy, but in the meantime they've been hard at work lobbying for total network encryption, a system that would protect users of a network (sa...

Setting proper permissions is a good place to start when securing your Vista workstation, but you can go one-step further by encrypting files on your workstation. Encryption provides another layer of protection for information that must be kept private. Vista includes two encryption technologies, En...

CryptoExpert creates new virtual hard drives that appears to applications like any other physical hard drive. Any data that the user attempts to write to this drive is intercepted and encrypted by CryptoExpert. Drive is invisible without password. [Update | License: Shareware $59.95 | Requires: Win ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: TrueCrypt 6.0, the latest and improved version of the powerful software encryption tool, has been released. New to this version are the additions of hidden volume tools—the ability to create virtual, encrypted drives only viewable by yourself—to the OS X and Linux vers...