encryption
Hardware
Origin Data Locker Backs Rugged Looks With AES Hardware Encryption
7:00AM Jack Loftus | The Origin Data Locker: For the paranoid geek who lives with his parents in their fortified underground bunker. More »
Hardware
Aegis Padlock Secure Drive Protects Data With Keypad, Encryption
6:11PM Danny Allen | Perfect for paranoid types, the Padlock portable hard disk has its own keypad and administrator feature for tailored PIN access. The drives have 128-bit realtime or 256-bit AES hardware encryption, shock mounting, and come in sizes up to 500GB. More »
Phones
Hacker Claims IPhone 3GS Encryption Is Dangerously Easy To Crack
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Noted iPhone security destroyer Jonathan Zdziarski has cracked the iPhone 3GS encryption security, which is to be expected, but the ease and speed with which he did it is worrisome. Zdziarski claims the iPhone 3GS is thus “useless” to businesses. More »
Peripherals
Pretec 128GB ExpressCard SSD Is The Largest, Most Paranoid of Its Kind
8:20PM John Herrman | Something about plugging accessories into card slots feels kind of, I don’t know, 90s to me. That is, unless the accessory is a 128GB, hardware-encrypted SSD. More »
Software
Windows 7 Networking and Security: HomeGroup, User Account Controls and More
1:55AM Erica Ho | For the average person, networking and security are two of the biggest causes of OS-related headaches, with so many settings, devices, alerts and threats to stay on top of. With Windows 7, Microsoft attempts a more useful approach to family networking with HomeGroup. It expands its security options, too, but does it with more concern for user-friendliness than during Vista development. More »
Science
Quantum Encryption Network Goes Live, Claims To Be Unbreakable
1:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Scientists have connected up the world’s first computer network protected by “quantum cryptography,” a supposedly unbreakable system that functions off a scheme based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. For us non-science folk, that means that you can’t grab information transmitted through the network without disturbing it somehow, making it easy to detect when somebody’s trying to listen in on exchanges.
Gadgets
3M Mobile ID Reader Helps Big Brother Take Your Identity More Efficiently
12:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | 3M’s new Mobile ID Reader scans MRZ and RF chip data from passports and visas and immediately checks them against local or international watch lists by using wifi or GSM/GPRS EDGE networks. It seems like a great tool to further make you feel like you’re living in some scary dystopian sci-fi novel, especially when you hear that dastardly monopolist Bill Gates got his little-loved Windows Mobile 6 OS onto the device. More »
Hardware
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000B is Power Efficient 1TB Drive, Has Encryption Too
3:00AM Kit Eaton | About a year ago we brought you the first retail terabyte HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000, and now Hitachi has released the Deskstar 7K1000.B. And Hitachi’s worked quite hard on it: With a 32MB buffer and a three-disk layout, it’s apparently the “world’s most power-efficient 1TB drive” and consumes about 43% less power when idling. And for those of you who think “bleh” to the power savings, it also has built-in encryption, which Hitachi says doesn’t impact on read/write speeds at all. Out soon for US$279, which puts it in competition with the Samsung HD103UJ. [Hitachi and BoingBoing Gadgets] More »
Hardware
Data Encryption Easily Broken Using Keys Hiding In RAM
11:45AM Wilson Rothman | Scientists at Princeton have discovered a way to grab otherwise-protected data encryption keys from memory on a computer that’s just been powered down. This is pretty scary stuff, since the keys—which are well protected when the computer is on—are the one thing that keeps super-tight encryption from cracking. More »
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