security

Collecting fees in difficult economic times

October 20, 2008

With the stock market gyrating and the economy sinking, many lawyers are already starting to see clients fall behind on paying their bills. Here are a few ideas for managing fee collection through troubling times:
Comfort clients
First of all, and to put the strategies below in context, make contact with your clients, particularly the ones who [...]

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To do: change your email security question

October 5, 2008

By now, everyone knows Sarah Palin’s email account was hacked a few weeks back. How? The clever interloper found her email address and used the forgotten password links plus a few well-known facts about Palin to reset her password. Piece of cake. Almost as easy as opening your physical mailbox to read your mail, in [...]

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Encryption: do it when you travel

August 1, 2008

The Department of Homeland Security just disclosed its official policy on laptop seizures. It says it can and will take laptops of foreigners and U.S. Citizens for as long as it wants, for whatever it wants.
How can they get away with this? Because an out-of-touch judiciary says so. Border agents can search laptops without any [...]

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TrueCrypt 6.0 out and looking even better than ever

July 7, 2008

TrueCrypt 6.0 was released on the 4th, and includes some great new features, including the ability to encrypt and hide the entire operating system for Windows users. It is also optimized for multiple-core processors.
TrueCrypt 6.0 is available for Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux. Get it here.
For first-time encrypters, last year I posted a tutorial on [...]

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Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless

June 30, 2008

In the newest Lawyerist video, I describe four reasons to create a paperless law office:

Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless from Sam Glover on Vimeo.

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FIRE DRILL! How secure are your files?

May 21, 2008

Imagine any of the following scenarios:

You returned to your office this morning to find it had burned to the ground overnight. You cannot salvage anything but a few crispy bits of your pencil sharpener.
Someone swiped your laptop on the train this morning while you were on your way to work. Nobody seems to have seen [...]

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Back up your computer only when you are not using it

April 3, 2008

A fair amount of the people I talk to about backup say they forget to do it, or they can’t figure out–or never get around to setting up–the built-in backup options. If that sounds like you, check out IdleBackup, a utility for backing up your computer when it is sitting idle.
I still recommend making a [...]

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Linux beats Windows and Mac OSX in hacking context

March 29, 2008

From PC World:
Vista, MacBook Out–Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest
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The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the [...]

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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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