Security online, a thought experiment
It has been a while since I have posted due to lack of time. This is going to be a short post, but one intended to provoke some thought. I recently checked the logs in my website and I was… (READ MORE)
Why don’t consumer laptops offer the ability to encrypt their storage drives?
On my main personal machine right now, an old Dell Precision m6700, I have enabled the BitLocker drive encryption. Hard drive encryption is always the last line of defense in case of theft. However, it would make it harder for anyone… (READ MORE)
Just how safe is your data? If you use a WD My Passport, apparently it is not very safe
Recently, there was a paper published about Western Digital’s (WD) My Passport series of Hard Drives. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1002.pdf Anyways, if you read the full report, it is a great summary of the various points of vulnerability that the drive has. Basically,… (READ MORE)
