ToddN - Slashdot User

Comment Couldn't it be said . . . (Score 2) 887

by ToddN on Monday July 11, 2011 @12:34PM (#36721968) Attached to: DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop

Strictly speaking, couldn't it be said that the data in an encrypted volume technically exists only in your mind?

I possess a hard drive full of meaningless bits, that reasonably can never be brute forced. There are no documents there, no .jpg files, no audio, no video.

The 30+ character key to reconstitute those bits into something readable resides only in my mind.

Therefore the act of decrypting the volume technically involves the creation of those files anew.

Submission + - Death of the Desktop (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain on Monday June 27, 2011 @02:31PM

stinkymountain writes: The corporate desktop has looked the same for decades: computer, keyboard, mouse, desk phone, maybe a printer. But do these tools dominate because they're the perfect combination of technology needed for work today, or is the enterprise workplace due for an extreme makeover? According to industry analysts, hardware vendors, architects and futurists, the odds that major changes will revamp the standard corporate cubicle, technology tools and even buildings, rise every day.

Submission + - Developers Defecting From BlackBerry (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Monday June 27, 2011 @01:53PM

jfruhlinger writes: "Mobile app developers with multiple platforms to build for need to figure out how to conserve their resources somehow, and many are choosing to do so by not bothering to build apps for BlackBerry phones. It's a combination of declining market share and the general difficulty of building apps for the BlackBerry platform, one developer told Bloomberg: "RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and expensive to develop across devices.""

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