How do you know for sure that your e-mail is safe from interception? You don't. Unless you digitally sign and encrypt it with a strong, safe key, that is.
In this Insider Secrets video, CNET Editor Tom Merritt shows you how to install and use an open-source privacy tool that does both, for fee.
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That's the dog-sized Bluetooth headset you can buy to go with today's real news item, the new BlackBerry Storm: announced but not released. Until it comes out, though, it's basking in the warm glow of the "meeting and maybe exceeding expectations" judgments coming from the media. In sum, it sounds cool. And Google decides it's high time they made some money on that whole YouTube thing.
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Maybe it's something in the air but a myriad of security concerns surfaced, seemingly all at once, on Thursday. CNET News' Elinor Mills sits down with Kara Tsuboi to talk about one aspect... Apple and other music retailers won't have to pay higher royalty rates...On a day when the stock market again wilted, there's still optimism among some tech start-ups.
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To encrypt or not to encrypt Ceatec companies feel the credit crunch Analyst sees desperation in Microsoft SearchPerks Obama releases iPhone recruiting, campaign tool Nintendo says more Wiis available for holiday season … Read moreEven before someone hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account I had been wondering whatever happened to encryption.
Encryption -- the science of rendering plain text unreadable by anyone but the intended reader -- made a splash in the mid-1990s. At the time the U.S. government was investigating human rights activist Phil Zimmermann for allegedly violating the Arms Export Control Act by distributing his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) e-mail encryption software. The government eventually relaxed the restrictions and PGP was no longer programa non grata.
Nearly a decade has passed and it struck me recently that encryption still hasn'… Read more
Updated at 7:55 a.m. PT on Wednesday to specify that the FBI cleared Mitnick of any wrongdoing in this event.
Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate--that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago.
After landing at the Atlanta airport for a security conference, Mitnick was detained for four hours for reasons still not fully explained. To make matters worse, while customs officials in Atlanta were busy inspecting his cell phone, laptop, and luggage, police in Bogota were ripping open a package he had mailed to his U.S. address on suspicion that it contained cocaine.
The simultaneous incidents gave Mitnick deja vu of his days as a fugitive pursued by the FBI for breaking into computer networks, only this time, he hadn't broken any laws.
"There was uncertainty, fear, and panic because I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't do anything wrong," he said in a recent telephone interview with CNET News. "In my mind, I thought I was being set up for something."
Here's a rundown of what happened:
Mitnick's Delta Airlines plane landed in Atlanta on September 16 at around 3 p.m. He had flown in from Bogota, where he had gone to give a speech to the newspaper El Tiempo and to visit his girlfriend.
The first sign of trouble was when a U.S. customs agent swiped his passport through the computer system and started staring intently at the screen and typing. "Kevin," the agent said with a big smile on his face. "Guess what? There are some people downstairs who want to have a word with you, but don't worry. Everything will be OK." … Read more
Large organizations are deploying more and more encryption technologies these days on laptops, tape backup systems, mobile devices--everywhere.
Yes, they are concerned about regulatory compliance, data breaches, and embarrassing front-page headlines, but there is something else going on as well. Technology suppliers are now baking encryption into technology components and systems. As encryption becomes cheap and ubiquitous, risk-averse users will likely deploy it everywhere.
Ironically, multilayer encryption may actually compromise data security. Why? If data is encrypted multiple times, someone better know about the chain of encryption events that took place. Each encryption activity relies on an encryption key to … Read more
On Monday, Western Digital introduced its new 500GB capacity portable USB drive for its My Passport Elite and Essential lines.
Features for both of the USB-powered Elite and Essential lines include synchronization software that lets users sync their changes and protect their information with 128-bit encryption, as well as plug-and-play capability with gaming consoles to make it easy to play music and view photos and video files on a TV.
My Passport Elite portable drives are available in bronze, titanium, westminster blue and cherry red. Additional features include:
Capacity gauge that enables users to know at-a-glance how much space is … Read moreWhile on vacation in San Francisco last week, my family and I happened to stop by the Apple Store in Union Square. The buzz within was overwhelming--foreign tourists looking for cheap iPods, college students grabbing MacBooks, and business folks lining up for the 3G iPhones.
All of this activity isn't lost on large organizations. It seems that Apple is sitting pretty, ready for a backdoor entrance into the enterprise market with Macs and iPhones over the next few years.
The market certainly appears headed in this direction, but ironically, Apple may be its own worst enemy. Why? With its … Read more
Coded messages date back to Roman Times and probably existed before.
Sticklers may prefer encyphering an decyphering. reserve decrypt for decoding a message you don't have the key for.
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Types of Encryption
-Symmetric-key
Each computer has a secrte key by which it encrypts and decrypts the data. Only another computer that knows what key was used can decrypt. Problem with key distribution
-Public key - introduced by Whitfield Diffie and … Read more
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