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Entries on this site with 'laptops'
- An interesting development in the Lower Marion School District surveillance case.
For a couple of months now I've been following the Lower Marion High School laptop surveillance case in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If the story's been dropped from your c
- US Legal System puts the kibosh on warrantless seizure of laptops at the border.
For a couple of years now the US Department of Homeland Security has reserved the right to confiscate the laptop computers of US citizens for forensic analysis upon re-ent
- Lower Marion School District's stash of surveillance photos found.
The investigation into employees of the Lower Marion School District continues apace , and some highly disturbing things have been discovered. Evidence has been found that
- More from the Lower Merion School District.
A couple of days ago word hit the newswires that a high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had been using the laptops issued to its students to spy on them . Word's gott
- High school issues laptops, uses them to spy on students.
An article hit Boing Boing today that raised the hackles on the back of my neck as I read it. The Lower Merion School District just outside of Philadelphia received a gran
- Legal battles over unwarranted search and seizure at the borders are spinning up.
For a couple of years now the Customs and Border Patrol of the United States has had the legal authority to confiscate the laptops of people entering the country to perfor
- Practical whole disk encryption, or, how to frustrate data forensics.
When you get right down to it, the best way for an attacker to get hold of your data is to shut the box down, pull the drive, and rip a sector-by-sector image to analyze o
- Maybe I should write about things other than myself for a while.
If you're involved in the retrocomputing or PC history scenes, chances are you've heard of double-sided floppy disks that are formatted for one system on side A and anothe
- Privacy, anonymity, and security, part the first.
Longtime readers of my weblog are no doubt familiar with my preoccuptation with security, which lead to my working in that field of endeavour, and also my interest in pers
- Title restored - so how did I spent my weekend, anyway?
Unfortunately, I spent much of last Friday asleep, recovering after a routine filling went south and turned into an emergency root canal. I don't know what does it about t
- Confiscation and examination of electronics at the border intensifies.
It would appear that the confiscation and analysis of personal electronics at the US border is intensifiying and that people are starting to get up in arms about it. It's
- US Judicial system debates the legality of searching laptops at the border for no discernable reason.
For a while now I've been hearing about (and thus keeping an eye on) stories from people whosee laptops are being confiscated at the border and examined , as sort of a gil
- How about some surreality to cap off a wonderfully weird night?
In the words of my namesake, I'll explain later. First up, one of my fellow retrocomputing afficionados named Toni Westbrook has undertaken an amazing project: Shredz64 .
- Situation report from Austin, Texas.
Things have finally slowed down somewhat in Austin, affording me the opportunity to write a long-overdue update. Workdays have been long (averaging thirteen hours out of e
- Cleaning the screens of laptops.
The premoistened towelettes that you can buy to clean the screen of your laptop computer (or at least the ones made by 3M, anyway) are basically lint-free disposable sheet
- Car repairs at last?
Today's the fifth of January - the TARDIS is supposed to be ready at the body shop by now. Cross your fingers, everyone. thunderbird -ProfileManager - For when you absolut
- Confiscation of laptops entering the United States.
Just when you thought travelling by air couldn't get any more harrowing, along comes confiscation of laptop computers when re-entering the United States . Some are never s
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