Researchers crack FileVault, BitLocker with canned air hack

Kage · 02-22-2008, 06:46 PM

One of the adages of computing is that no hardware is safe when a hacker has physical access to the machine. In an age of booming laptop sales, people haven't found that reassuring and have frequently turned to disk encryption in an effort to protect their personal data. A new paper (PDF) by a group of Princeton computer scientists suggests that disk encryption is vulnerable to a hack that will be hard to correct for: data about the encryption can be extracted from the machine's RAM.

ars technica - Researchers crack FileVault, BitLocker with canned air hack

SRTDodge05 · 02-22-2008, 09:19 PM

Sounds like fun.

02-22-2008, 06:46 PM	#1
Kage Ich will mehr! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Fiery depths of Hell Posts: 3,620	Researchers crack FileVault, BitLocker with canned air hack One of the adages of computing is that no hardware is safe when a hacker has physical access to the machine. In an age of booming laptop sales, people haven't found that reassuring and have frequently turned to disk encryption in an effort to protect their personal data. A new paper (PDF) by a group of Princeton computer scientists suggests that disk encryption is vulnerable to a hack that will be hard to correct for: data about the encryption can be extracted from the machine's RAM. ars technica - Researchers crack FileVault, BitLocker with canned air hack
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02-22-2008, 09:19 PM	#2
SRTDodge05 Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 7,835	Re: Researchers crack FileVault, BitLocker with canned air hack Sounds like fun.
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