by Robin Harris | Friday, July 14, 2006 | Security & Public Policy |
The Canadian Flag On Your Backpack Will Fool No One That’s right, the US State Department loves wireless storage so much they are putting it in your passport, according to CNN Money, in the form of a 64 KB RFID chip. That’s four times the memory of my...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 7, 2006 | Future Tech, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
I love what cheap massive storage will do for business, culture and research. Yet every so often I have second thoughts about how storage and other technologies might be misused – with the very best of intentions. This isn’t a Left or Right issue: folks...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 30, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
EMC, the world’s largest independent storage firm, paid a 45% premium for RSA Security, a firm with stagnant sales. Its stock promptly tanked, dropping 4%. Expect more tanking RSA products are primarily authentication (you are who you say you are) and access...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 18, 2006 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
How Hard? After a US spy plane was forced to land in China and the plane’s disks gave up military secrets, researchers worked to figure out how to quickly and securely erase the disk. Even when the people snooping it had unlimited time and money. Crushing,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 9, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Chilling story about a security firm’s successful infiltration of a credit union’s infrastructure using old USB flash drives. They wrote a Trojan that would collect “. . . passwords, logins and machine-specific information from the user’s computer,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Update Back in 2002 I met several times with the CTO of a large defense contractor to discuss how my company could help them build a “network intrusion detection system”. He described a system that would take in about 5 TB of data daily from about 500...
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