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TrueCrypt 5.0 released with major new features, Linux GUI

February 6, 2008

My favorite encryption software, TrueCrypt, released a major update today. There are two major new features:

TrueCrypt now allows encryption of the entire system partition in Windows. TrueCrypt has enabled encryption of non-system partitions before, but this features allows you to encrypt your entire drive.
The long-awaited graphical interface for GNU/Linux!

TrueCrypt is a free and open-source software [...]

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Online marketing 101: privacy and technical know-how (part 1 of 3)

February 5, 2008

By now, most attorneys are at least thinking about marketing their practice online, if not doing it in some fashion already. But “online marketing” is a concept so vague it is completely unhelpful. Online marketing encompasses everything from websites to social networking sites to chat rooms. Much online marketing is similar to offline marketing, but [...]

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A valuable reminder

July 3, 2007

My office was burglarized over the weekend, a valuable reminder of the need to backup and secure your files, both paper and digital.
All the jerks stole was a few rolls of stamps and my video camera. Expensive for me, to be sure, but nothing particularly disturbing. They didn’t touch my external hard drive that I [...]

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Laptop with personal data of all 64,000 Ohio State employees stolen

June 16, 2007

This is why you need to encrypt your client files.
If the data on that hard drive was encrypted, rather than sitting out there for anyone to see, the headline might have been entirely different. All the thief would be able to see would be a file, partition, or drive full of gobbledygook (that’s a technical [...]

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Wiping hard drives clean as a whistle

May 3, 2007

We recently mentioned encryption, but what do you do when it comes time to throw out a hard drive? Wipe it clean. Why go to the trouble? The same reason you should encrypt client data. As a lawyer, your computer is an identity thief’s dream. When you toss a hard drive with readable data on [...]

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Protect client data with encryption

April 27, 2007

Attorneys have a lot of data about clients. A lot of this may be on your computer, especially if you have begun to explore having a paperless law office. And hard drives are only as secure as the lock on your office door. Paper can’t be encrypted–another downside to paper–but digital data can.
While I don’t [...]

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