August 2009 Archives

Your data will self-destruct in 5... 4... 3...

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"Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service."
This is certainly a good way to prevent those emberassing pictures from you past from getting a job. And it could be a good prevention against social engineering as well. But I wonder what the consequences will be on computer forensics.

Computer forensics interviews

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A nice article on how NOT to interview for a computer forensics job.
I can answer those questions, pick me, pick me ;)

Skype conversations might become interceptable soon

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Over the last months, several countries have already expressed their interest in cracking the Skype encryption, so their respective law enforcement teams can 'listen in' on conversations where criminal activities are suspected. There's good news for the investigators: eBay, the current owner of Skype, has revealed that due to intellectual property disputes with the original owners of Skype, eBay might change the core of the application and remove the proprietary peer-to-peer technology that is currently used.

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