networkworld.com — Here's a list of the 10 biggest (known) security breaches from lost or stolen laptops, where government agencies, corporations and colleges failed to safeguard the names, Social Security numbers and other personal info of their customers. Encryption software - which costs as little as $10 per laptop - could have prevented most of these incidents.
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Closed AccountMay 24, 2008
don't know where to start with that one.been to school a while and...well, you can probably guess what I'm going to say.(and no, I don't live in New Mexico nor Nevada; don't even need to go that far).If you think TrueCrypt is "unbreakable" you might want to know more about SGI projects, consider other countries and ....so frustrating...that's all I will say.Please - go back to your dormroom and hit the bong again.
elvisaMay 24, 2008
A 5% drop in disk read/write performance and the "difficulty" of remembering another password are not good enough excuses for people carrying social security numbers on their laptops to not use encryption.The examples in this story are negligence, pure and simple. That data should never have left it's respective owner without proper protection.Where I work, the standard is Pointsec on Windows laptops and Encrypted LVM on Linux laptops. Anyone who considers it too difficult to comply has their laptop taken from them. There is no negotiation - you encrypt, or you don't use company laptops.
xmodem2May 24, 2008
Incorrect Assuming the key is not compromised, a One-time pad cannot be cracked.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Time_Pad">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Time_Pad</a>And while, sure, AES might be breakable with enough CPU power, please show me any individual or organisation capable of breaking AES within my lifetime (assuming the implementation I'm using isn't flawed)
slockhartMay 24, 2008
Yeah, what he said.
bipolarruledoutMay 24, 2008
Do you know what his credit line is and if it's going to be enough to cover that lawsuit?
nourkahMay 24, 2008
The military one was funny. I remember getting the letter from the government (I'm in the army), saying that they had that information stolen. I wasn't really that worried since there was almost 30 million other people who's information that they could choose from. hilarious though.
elvisaMay 26, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker</a>DES encryption: * Selected as a FIPS standard in 1976* cracked in 96 days in 1997* cracked in 41 days in early 1998* cracked in 56 hours by mid 1998Nothing is "uncrackable" forever. :)