In this post I’m going to briefly discuss the issues I’ve had getting my new X61 notebook booting with 4 OS’s, (Windows Vista, Windows XP, Ubuntu, Backtrack) encrypted.
Preamble: Our new staff laptops are pretty fantastic. Faculty has an initiative subsidizing the cost of deploying tablet notebooks to all schools in Computing and Health Science. I [...]
Wherein the author is critical of his undergraduate research project:
By way of a follow on to the earlier post on the topic: The (academic) security project rolls on, with about a month to complete our tasks, which essentially involves superficial evaluation of certain mobile phone data acquisition software which purport some valid ‘forensics’ functions, the [...]
So this week is the beginning of the final year project for IT and compsci students: since I’m still an undergraduate in the final throes of my degree I get to participate.
After being divided up by specialty last week (Software Development, Networking, Security) we had a brief meeting with our supervisor whereby several things were [...]