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Ricoh GXR camera system swaps out the sensor along with the lens {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 4:42PM It's the processing gubbins that are more likely to be upgradable anyway. Any major changes to the sensor (like the ability to shoot very high resolution high-rate video) is likely to require a processing upgrade too. Why not just replace the whole body?
IronKey ships uber-secure D200 USB flash drives {Engadget}
Nov 5th 2009 8:55AM Well spotted, Fro.
I suppose there are two ways around this:
1. Don't decrypt the volume on the drive: copy it to a computer first. Of course, when you copy the re-encrypted volume back, it may not necessarily overwrite the original volume, leaving an attacker with two versions of the same volume. The may weaken the encryption, but only very slightly (as far as my understanding goes).
2. Make the volume the same size as the USB drive, then the re-encryption process will definitely overwrite any decrypted information that was previously on the drive, wear levelling or not.
I really know nothing about this, but as far as I know the wear levelling mechanisms are often built into the flash chips themselves...if this is true, it would take a pretty dedicated and well-funded attacker to bypass the mechanisms and access the memory cells directly.
Please, correct me if any of the above is wrong.
IronKey ships uber-secure D200 USB flash drives {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 12:13PM Diluted,
Agreed. I was thinking from a day-to-day personal point of view: I assume that Indefinite Implosion wouldn't have been worried about the prices if his employer was footing the bill!.
I must admit, I don't have much experience of this sort of technology from an enterprise point of view. I didn't realise how much more there was to these devices. Achieving the functionality you mention would be very tedious with only free software, and certainly not much fun for your typical non-geeky Enterprise Joe.
However, I'm still puzzled about something: if your data is sensitive enough to warrant all the protection measured you listed, why are you letting your users routinely walk around with it in their pockets? In my mind, forbidding them to take it off site (except where totally necessary) seems more secure. Ultimately, this comes to mind: http://xkcd.com/538/
Just curious.
Apple's App Store breaks 100,000 apps {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 10:19AM To summarise, then, aardWolf's fleshlight cost $195 more than yours and can make farting noises.
Apple's App Store breaks 100,000 apps {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 10:05AM I like to urinate in balloons, freeze them, cut away the rubbery outer-bladders then hurl them into jacuzzis belonging to people I don't like.
Where's my bunch of apps? What can you offer me, Mack?
IronKey ships uber-secure D200 USB flash drives {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 7:38AM Here's how to deal with that shock:
1. Go and buy a $10 USB stick.
2. Put a TrueCrypt volume on it with a good password (www.truecrypt.org/).
Total cost: $10. Less if you already have a USB stick.
It won't be resistant to water and extreme shock, nor will it be usable as an authentication token. It will, however, be every bit as scallywag-proof as the IronKey module.
Sprint launches Samsung Moment, Android empire expands by one {Engadget}
Nov 2nd 2009 7:36AM Do you know how many hours I've wasted trying to improve my typing efficiency via dvorak?
Samsung shows off color e-paper prototype, PVI might beat it to market in 2010 {Engadget}
Oct 29th 2009 8:18AM I've already got e-wood.
Canon's EOS 1D Mark V DSLR defying death, launching tomorrow? {Engadget}
Oct 19th 2009 5:57PM And what about the EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM? There are two fours there...
Livestream Livepack: a 'satellite television truck in a backpack' {Engadget HD}
Oct 1st 2009 3:55AM It's not quite a 'satellite television truck' replacement though, is it? You still have to be somewhere within the range of three mobile operators to use it.
