auchmeddan

I try not to put too much Tech stuff up on here as it’s meant to be more about our lives and not my geeky obsessions, but I just spent a couple of days up at Tech-Ed in Auckland courtesy of Axon sending a few employees up to the conference. This was my first Tech-Ed, and I really enjoyed the security related presentations by Steve Riley and Kai Axford. It was very interesting watching Kai’s Forensic based presentation and the Q&A with NZ Police’s E-Crime unit, then closing the day listening to a hyped-up (read: normal) Steve Riley stressing that there is NO back door into BitLocker and YES the bad guys can use it too if they want to.

What Bitlocker could mean for Computer Forensics is an interesting space to watch. If the penalty for not supplying your decryption key (or PIN, or whatever) is six months in jail and you have something on disk that could send you away for Waaaaaaayy longer, what would you choose?

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