"Seagate" Encrypt Data on Hard Drives?

Posted 10/30/2006 8:10 AM ET
By May Wong, The Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Seagate Technology hopes its new security system for the hard drive will become the most formidable barrier between computer data and thieves.

The world's largest hard drive maker says its DriveTrust Technology, to be announced Monday, automatically encrypts every bit of data stored on the hard drive and requires users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the disk drive.


Technology that protects the hard drive — the computer's storehouse of data — differs from most security products launched in the past several years. Such products typically put firewalls around computer networks, encrypt data files or defend the operating system from invasions.

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Iron Man "The Movie"

Iron Man

This movie is in the works but so far all of the Super Hero movie done to date are very good. I have gotten most of them on DVD when they came out. Iron Man rocked in the comic books so I hope he does on the big screen. Time will tell!

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Microsoft: Windows Vista Is on Schedule

From Associated Press
October 13, 2006 7:09 AM EDT

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said Friday it is on track to deliver the new Windows Vista operating system to its volume license customers around the world in November, and to the general public in January.

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40 Live NBA Games Coming to the Internet

By ANICK JESDANUN (AP Internet Writer)
From Associated Press
October 13, 2006 5:35 PM EDT

NEW YORK - Some 40 NBA games will be available live online each week as the league extends its television subscription package to the Internet.

Fans, however, will be restricted in their ability to follow hometown teams. Technology will be used to block access to local games to preserve television rights. Also excluded are games broadcast on television nationally.


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Microsoft: Working With Security Vendors

From Associated PressOctober 16, 2006 12:59 PM EDT

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it had given security vendors Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. some of the information they want to make their products work with Microsoft's new operating system, Vista.

Microsoft spokesman Tom Brookes said the software interfaces for the Windows Security Center - Vista's new "security dashboard" - were uploaded to a Web site for software developers.

Both security companies have complained that Microsoft was withholding key information they needed to develop software compatible with Vista before it is handed over to computer manufacturers next month. Consumers should be able to begin buying the new operating system in January.

Microsoft also said it planned to talk to both Symantec and McAfee to discuss changes they want made to Microsoft's anti-hacking tool, Patchguard. Symantec wanted its software to be excluded from Patchguard's scope so it would not be wrongly identified as a threat to the system.

Symantec and McAfee were not immediately available for comment.

On Friday, Microsoft said it had changed key aspects of Vista to soothe European antitrust worries. But the EU antitrust office refused to back Microsoft's optimism that European concerns had been met. "The jury is out," EU spokesman Jonathan Todd said.

The EU and Microsoft have fought for years, and the 25-nation bloc levied a 497 million-euro ($613 million) fine on Microsoft in 2004.

How to forward e-mails safely!!

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SAFELY FORWARD E-MAILS?

PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS!

This is well worth reading because a lot of people don't understand what happens when they forward and re-forward E-mail without deleting the names of prior senders. Consider this a little primer on e-mail:

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it?

Every time you forward an E-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names.

As the messages get forwarded along over and over and over again, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for ONE person to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to EVERY E-mail address that has come across his or her computer, INCLUDING YOURS.

And if that isn't bad enough, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to some web site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right - all of that inconvenience over a nickel!

How do you stop it?

Well, there are two easy steps:

1) When you forward an E-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message. Highlight them and delete them - by backspacing them, cutting them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second.

You MUST click the "Forward" button first.

Then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on "Forward first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send a e-mail to more than one person, Do NOT use the To: or Cc: columns for adding e-mail address!!!!

Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) line for listing your E-mail addresses. This way, people that you send email to ONLY see their own E-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it - it's that easy! Depending on your Email Program, you can also open a new mail, then go up to "View" at the top of your screen, and make sure "Show BCC" is ticked.

When you send E-mail using the BCC: your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field of the people who receive it. This protects your friends addresses so that nefarious people can't accumulate them!

When forwarding an E-mail, forward it while you have it open, right after you have read it.

When you close that email and then forward it later the recipient of that email may have to open attachments up to 10-12 different times or more (depending on just how it was forwarded to you) before they can actually read the message you sent them! Trust me, that is EXTREMELY irritating, especially when you have limited time to read your email. It is much better to be able to open an email and read it immediately without all the annoying extra steps.