Forget 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleFBI 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 ArticleCalifornia, New York Put Forth Useless Phone Encryption Bills
California and New York are each attempting to pass bills that they claim will help protect people against crime, but in reality would likely simply eliminate a source of sales tax revenue from the...
View ArticleGovernments, Old Tech, Acquisitions: 2015 Storage Trends
The interesting thing about looking over an entire year’s worth of stories at once is that things that seemed like a single event at the time turn out to be part of a larger arc. Yes, the storage...
View ArticleYes, Cops Can Make You Use Your Fingerprint to Unlock Your Phone
While courts are still arguing back and forth about whether people can be compelled to give up the encryption key for their laptops and other devices, it looks like they may have decided that it’s okay...
View ArticleWill Only Outlaws Be Able to Have Smartphone Encryption?
Now that Apple and Google have announced that they will incorporate encryption in smartphones by default, the question is how long law-abiding Americans will be allowed to continue to have encryption...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From the ‘ISIS Terror Laptop of Doom’
Our government loses so many laptops, it’s kind of nice when the tables are turned once in a while. That said, a lot of people are talking about what’s purported to be a laptop belonging to the Sunni...
View Article‘You Had One Job’: Canadian Privacy Agency Loses Employee Personal Data
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada had to admit last week that it had, uh, lost an unencrypted hard drive containing the personal data of up to 800 current and former federal employees...
View ArticleJudge Upholds Right to Border Electronics Searches
In the tv show the West Wing, there’s an episode in the first season called “Take Out the Trash Day,” where Josh explains to Donna that in White House parlance, “take out the trash day” refers to the...
View ArticleProsecution Drops Attempt to Force Child Porn Suspect to Decrypt Hard Drives
Prosecutors have dropped attempts to force a suspect to give up the encryption key for his hard drives. Unfortunately, they dropped the attempts not because it was the right thing to do, but because...
View ArticleFollowing Amazon, Google Unveils a Bigger Station Wagon
“The point is this: No matter how fat a pipe you have to the Internet, at some given amount of data, it’s going to be faster, cheaper, or both to use some manual method to ship data on some storage...
View ArticleJudge Reverses Himself on Revealing Encryption Keys in Child Porn Case
Courts have been ruling one way or another in the past few years about whether someone accused of encrypting incriminating information needs to reveal the encryption key to law enforcement. Now we...
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