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Passware Claims To Break FileVault 2 Encryption In 40 Minutes

Feb 1, 12 9:00 PM
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Cnet reported Passware, password recovery company, has claimed that FileVault 2 for Mac could be broken under or around 40 minutes.  In case you have never used Mac before, FileVault 2 is similar to TrueCrypt and Windows’ BitLocker.  These three major popular encryption software help computer users to securely wipe (i.e., format hard drives, partitions, external drives, etc…) and then encrypt hard drives and the likes.

Using encryption technology supposes to be helping computer users to secure their data, but it seems companies such as Passware do have ways around the encryption technology after all.  Nonetheless, since we now know encryption software are vulnerable, we can at least understand that relying on encryption software alone to protect our most precious data might not be enough.  This way we only have ourselves to blame and be angry at when we’re not actually going to the extend to protect our precious data beyond the deploying of encryption software.

To the best of my knowledge, I think most software that are designed to break encryptions (i.e., encrypted data) need to have access to the physical machines before such software can actually decrypt the data.  I wonder will this be the case for Passware’s claim too.  If it’s, then as how it has always been so; computer users best protect their precious data by physically secure their machines better.  This way, hackers have to jump more than one hoop to actually attain your precious data.

In the end, I think security is at best when wise computer users go to the extend in deploying whatever that is necessary to protect their computer data, that’s if such computer data are that important to some folks.  For now, let hope Apple, TrueCrypt, and Microsoft can soon come up with better encryption software so computer users know they can rely on encryption technology to protect their data better.  Let hope Passware isn’t claiming to have the ability to decrypt data from the cloud also, because such a scenario might be horrible for people who rely on encryptions to protect their data in the cloud.  So far, I don’t think this is possible yet.

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Using Fixit To Completely Remove Programs On Windows 7

Jan 31, 12 11:42 PM

I had a program which went rouge on me on Windows 7, and I could not remove it!  Luckily, I found out that Microsoft has a program known as Fixit which could repair my problem.  Before I post a link to Microsoft’s legitimate online location of Fixit so you would be able to download, let me describe my problem in detail so you would know if you might need Fixit or not. Of course, I must remind you not to download fake Fixit or any Fixit program which isn’t belonging to Microsoft unless you know the purpose of such program.  Why?  Some programs might mask themselves as a legitimate program to help solve your problems, but in fact those programs might be malware and infect your computer with malicious directives.

Anyhow, my problem was I had removed a program manually, but for some strange reasons I could not remove this program from Add or Remove Programs list (i.e., from Control Panel >> Programs >> Uninstall a program).  I went into Registry and removed all the entries that belonged to this specific program, and it refused to remove itself from Add or Remove Programs list.  I downloaded CCleaner and used it to fix Windows Registry, but the program would relentlessly refuse to remove itself from Add or Remove Programs list.  Well, as you already know what I had told you earlier, Fixit did it!  Yep, with Fixit, I was able to remove this specific program from my Add or Remove Programs list.  The link to Fixit is:

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Samsung Goes Futuristic, Showcasing Samsung Smart Transparent Window At CES 2012

Jan 11, 12 7:30 PM
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Samsung Smart Transparent Window is definitely something we had seen in Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 4 and other movies.  Say what?  Remember Tom Cruise and his female coworker/agent had to chase the bad guys in his cool electric car?  I think it was an electric Audi, but I might be wrong.  His female coworker/agent had to pull up an interactive map or something like that through the car’s front windshield, and the front windshield was transparent enough which allowed her to peek through the front windshield and yet keep the interactive content visible on the front windshield.  Well, Samsung Smart Transparent Window has the same concept, except that it allows users to check weather and other contents on real window (i.e., a window inside a house).

Samsung Smart Transparent Window can also allow users to use a virtual blind to close the window.  In regarding to virtual blind, I think it’s cool, but I’m just worrying that some really bizarre, embarrassing situations might occur if Samsung Smart Transparent Window crashes, disengages the virtual blind and allowing strangers to peek inside whatever compartment which it supposes to shut out.

Anyhow, I like the idea of this technology!  Perhaps someday in the future when Samsung Smart Transparent Window is popular and cheap enough, I might install it inside my house.  Check out the video right after the break to see Samsung Smart Transparent Window in action at CES 2012.

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