Judge upholds efforts to compel individual to decrypt drive in child pornography case
By Larry Chaffin on Wed, 03/04/09 - 8:15am.You really have to read this article:
Judge upholds efforts to compel individual to decrypt drive in child pornography case
The accused had sought Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination
No matter how bad you think this guy is or what he is hiding, at least he had the common sense to do what all of our big companies don't do. He used encryptions on this hard drive to make his data safe. He is going to become the poster boy for criminals who want to hide information now. Maybe our CIO's at all of our big companies could take note, try to secure things up.
Before anyone asks, my company is a partner with Checkpoint-PointSec to provide their software to companies for endpoint security and hard disk encryption. They are tops in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and a worldwide company.
No we did not sell this guy any software, we don't even know what software he used.
Is your hard drive encrypted and what about your USB stick, flash or PDA? You never know what someone might take.
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Pluto Networks is a Riverbed reseller. Pluto was previously a Cisco reseller but in June, 2010, ended its reseller relationship with the company and is no longer a Cisco channel partner.
Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009.
Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years of experience.
Pluto Networks is a channel partner of, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.
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