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FBI Finds ‘Perfect Test Case’ to Force Apple iPhone Encryption Issue
Okay, it’s another government vs. encrypted smartphone situation. But this one is different. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, who last December killed 14 people and injured 22 others in...
View ArticleYet Another Set of Terrorists Fails to Use Encryption
Government officials have been using recent terrorist attacks to try to justify limiting the use of encryption. You may recall, for example, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently...
View ArticleMan Jailed for Forgetting an Encryption Passcode
It’s like one of those nightmares where you keep trying to type in a password and it doesn’t work. Except in this case, it’s real life, and a man has been in jail for seven months – without being...
View ArticleFearing Government Warrants, Firms Ditching Client Data
In this day and age of “big data,” where many companies are trying to collect more and more data about their customers so they can analyze it to serve them better or sell them more stuff, some Silicon...
View ArticleEek! Laptops Full of ISIS Porn!
You could call it Porn Wars. The U.S. conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is being fought not on the battlefield – to the extent there even is a battlefield with the...
View ArticleWhat Will be the Trump Effect on Data Storage?
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States could have some really interesting implications for data storage, data sovereignty, and encryption. If by “interesting” you mean Really...
View Article‘Rogue One’ Data Storage — a Cautionary Tale
The problem with being a storage nerd is it makes it pretty difficult to enjoy the movies. In this day and age, too many movie plots hinge on computers and data, and moviemakers typically aren’t geeks,...
View ArticleAnother Judge Rules on Smartphone Encryption
Courts are still trying to decide if law enforcement can make you unlock your smartphone, with some ruling one way and some ruling the other. In the most recent case, they ruled that you have to. And,...
View ArticleIBM Mainframe Encryption Apparently Okay
When Apple and Google released cellphones with encryption being the default, law enforcement had kittens, with dire warnings about terrorism and child pornography if there wasn’t a back door into it....
View ArticleForget Your Password, Go to Jail
Remember the guy who got put in jail for contempt for forgetting his hard disk drive encryption passwords? He’s still in there, and doesn’t have any prospects for getting out anytime soon. Francis...
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