Christopher Leger

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Obama’s new blackberry?

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Declan McCullagh has an interesting piece on CNet today about a NSA-certified handheld that may be the next president’s portable device of choice. The General Dynamics Sectera Edge basically builds encryption and data security into every aspect of a standard Windows Mobile device. This level of data security may be a requirement for the president, [...]

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Call for legislation

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments

After hearing the story about the loss/misplacement/theft/ballyhoo of a TSA laptop containing over 30,000 travelers personal information, as well as the recent news in the Royal Bank of Scotland case, the TJX case, etc. I propose a simple piece of legislation: Any personally identifying information stored digitally must be encrypted using a NIST standards compliant [...]

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Tags: Internet Security · Politics · Technology Policy · laptop · networks