malcomvetter - Slashdot User

Comment Hollywood Rendition (Score 1) 208

by malcomvetter on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:04PM (#24396145) Attached to: "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies

I got my family to watch the ABC special on TV tonight. What an amazing and inspirational story!

My wife and I agree that they should make a Hollywood rendition of his life story and that Jim Carrey (from his more dramatic roles like The Truman Show) should play the part of Prof Pausch. There's an amazing resemblance in both their appearance and facial expressions as well as their desire to have fun.

Prof. Pausch, your memory will live on after you. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. Excellent "head fakes".

Submission + - Undocumented Backdoor in PGP Whole Disk Encryption (blogspot.com)

Submitted by A non-mouse Coward on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @09:49AM

A non-mouse Coward writes: PGP Corporation's widely adopted Whole Disk Encryption product apparently has an encryption bypass feature that allows an encrypted drive to be accessed without the boot-up passphrase challenge dialog, leaving data in a vulnerable state if the drive is stolen when the bypass feature is enabled. The feature is also apparently not in the documentation that ships with the PGP product, nor the publicly available documentation on their website, but only mentioned briefly in the customer knowledge base (PGP customer account required). Jon Callas, CTO and CSO of PGP Corp., responded that this feature was required by unnamed customers and that competing products have similar "dangerous" functionality. There is still no official word from PGP as to why the public documentation withheld recognition of this risky option.

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