Global Security Watch: January 2007 Archives

Global Security Watch > January 31, 2007

Use Windows Vista’s BitLocker to lock down your computer

[ Gadgetell] The tool lets you encrypt everything on your hard drive and makes it so you can use a flash drive (AKA thumb drive) as the key to the safe. So everytime you want to log on to your machine, you must have the flash drive in the USB port, or else you’ll get a screen telling you to insert it.

Does anybody know of a good server?

[Stormfront White Nationalist Community - Discussion Board for Activists] I am going to start up a website called Prison Skin that is dedicated to ones like my husband, who are basically imprisoned for their beliefs and has his writing and drawings and such. All are NS related...so does anybody know of a reasonably priced server that it would be good to put this kind of webpage on?

Posted at 03:29 AM

January 31, 2007

Use Windows Vista’s BitLocker to lock down your computer

Posted at 03:30 AM

Does anybody know of a good server?

Posted at 03:29 AM

January 24, 2007

Help Your Users Build Survivable Systems ”” Part 13

[ IT Guy Blogs » Minimize Time Invested ”” Maximize Dollars Earned] Utilizing an encryption hardware appliance- While a separate hardware appliance is the best option for tape encryption when considering system performance and management, it also comes with a hefty price tag.

Posted at 03:29 AM

Bitlocker Drive Encryption

[Windows Vista: Beyond the Manual] Nevertheless, this is quite limiting and Microsoft decided that there has to be a way of providing the encryption to older TPM-free clients, so it’s possible to set it up using a USB flash drive which is inserted into the USB port on system power on and the crypto material is read from there.

Posted at 03:28 AM

January 17, 2007

Your privacy is assured - Commentary

[Flying Hamster] theage.com.au “Victoria accounts for 2.8 million Medicare cards, making them one of the most commonly held pieces of plastic in the average wallet. The Medicare card has served people well over the past 23 years, but it’s also a card that is in need of an upgrade.

Posted at 03:32 AM

Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs

[BambisMusings - Musings from a little deer?] The Boing Boing blog also has a plug, which says: “Randall Stross has a great op-ed in today’s New York Times about how Apple’s iPhone comes chock-full of DRM that will restrict your freedom and your consumer choice.”

Posted at 03:28 AM

January 10, 2007

High-quality DVDs will not operate on some Vista PCs

[BambisMusings - Musings from a little deer?] Dave Marsh, the lead program manager for video at Microsoft, said that if the PC used a digital connection to link with the monitor or television, then it would require the highest level of content protection, known as HDCP, to play the discs. If it did not have such protection, Vista would shut down the signal, he said.

Posted at 03:26 AM

Macworld: New Rhinoskin Macbook Hardcase, slick and well designed

[gearfuse] At the Rhinoskin booth today, they we’re showing off their nice new iPod cases, but of couse, there are so many iPod cases already released that they needed something else. They definitely had that something else.

Posted at 03:25 AM

Global Security Watch > January 31, 2007

Use Windows Vista’s BitLocker to lock down your computer

Does anybody know of a good server?

January 31, 2007

Use Windows Vista’s BitLocker to lock down your computer

Does anybody know of a good server?

January 24, 2007

Help Your Users Build Survivable Systems ”” Part 13

Bitlocker Drive Encryption

January 17, 2007

Your privacy is assured - Commentary

Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs

January 10, 2007

High-quality DVDs will not operate on some Vista PCs

Macworld: New Rhinoskin Macbook Hardcase, slick and well designed

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