Archive for February 23rd, 2008

>> How Cheaply Can Encrypted Personal Data on a Hard Drive Be Unlocked and Stolen?

1 Comment Published February 23rd, 2008 in Business, Consumer, News, Privacy

It will typically cost an identity thief around $2.99. An article in today’s New York Times announced that researchers discovered that anyone can unlock data encryption on a PC hard drive merely by opening the case and blasting the chips with a can of compressed air, causing the data to remain in memory, allowing easy [...]