The main hassle about using encryption is the secure exchange of encryption keys. There are key servers and webs of trust and certificates and signatures and certificate authorities, but all that is magic to the average user and thus just as trustworthy as and generally more complicated than other closed systems (e.g. WhatsApp, Skype, etc.) which ( Read more... )

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Inside Programmable Road Signs** HACKER TIPS ** Should it will ask you for a password. Try “DOTS”, the default password. In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed it. However if they did, never fear. Hold “Control” and “Shift” and while holding, enter “DIPY”. This will reset the sign and reset the password to “DOTS” in the process. You’re ( Read more... )

German government today passed a law announcing the creation of a new and secure internet mail service called De-MailI think I get it. Because the previous law they passed on spying into people's computers was not effective enough they now simply try to get people to send their mail over government-controlled computers. Claiming those mails would ( Read more... )

... today my server's system drive failed. All I am getting is the well known clicking noise.

Seriously. WTF?!

Drive by hacking nets passport details:A white hat hacker has proved to the US authorities that their RFID passports are transmitting personal information to ID thieves ( Read more... )

My understanding of computers is, they are machines and machines fail from time to time. That's when you get a replacement for the machine. With computers that's not always easy, because computers hold lots of valuable information, especially in times of digital cameras. So that's why we have backups. In my computer I had a separate hard drive ( Read more... )

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For those of you who missed the news about entirely useless disk encryption on personal computers in february,.. this video will give a clue: