Webantix

During an install at a customers site, the customer requested that his Blue Coat SG proxy gateway was put in Transparent mode. I was happy to do this as it is quite simple to set up. Once it was up and running he decided that the users should be authenticated. This is where the problems started.

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This question has been in my head for a while now. If you use a disk encryption product either to encrypt a partition or the whole hard drive would you be able to not give the pass phrase to a border guard or immigration. Well a new story in the states is starting to look like it will answer my question.
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OK I always chickened out of creating a key in Linux as it is so easy in windows using PuTTYgen. But one day I decided to find out exactly how to do it in Linux and “Oh My God” it is even easier. I mean really simple. So simple that I was shocked and thought I had to of got this wrong.

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I know that for most people reading that headline are shouting already of course there has to be!!

Hey, if there was no security industry myself and a lot of my friends will be out of work. The reason why I have raised the question is not because I think it is pointless trying to secure systems that will always be insecure. It’s because why are systems insecure in the first place. (continue reading…)