Gates: Digital locks too complex
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Microsoft boss Bill Gates tells a group of influential bloggers that copy protection  is too complex for consumers.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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A new data-protection device will safeguard your passwords and files against theft. The IronKey (available at ThinkGeek.com) is a USB stick with a brushed metal, tamper-and-waterproof shell that simply screams "Mission Impossible."
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As consumers increasingly rely on digital media to secure their important documents and valuable personal content, they often fear that changes in technology may render their data inaccessible. Western Digital Corp.
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Digital Armaments seeks zero-day Windows flaws in 'Hacker's Challenge.'
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Also: Tactile passwords could stop ATM 'shoulder-surfing'
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A hard drive maker blocks online access to consumer's media files, raising questions about digital locks.
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Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses.
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A tool has been posted online that can apparently crack Vista's activation process by applying brute force -- and lots of time -- to come up with valid product keys. But the author is now telling users it's wrong to use it.
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With viruses, worms, spyware, spam and phishing, running a computer this year -- especially one with Windows -- has often been a colossal headache. -Rob Pegoraro
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.
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Bill Gates is right about one thing: asking people to use a two-factor form of authentication would go a long way toward alleviating a lot of the password problems that plague computer security today.
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Hacker claims to have discovered cryptographic key that can circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies.
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Company has made headway on protecting PCs, but more Net use means more challenges, Gates and Mundie tell RSA crowd.
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Passwords are out and tokens are the authentication wave of the future, right? Not so fast, says Jon Espenschied. The next next thing is both stranger and more familiar.
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Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday.
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I need to expand my idea of a secure computing ecosystem into the real world. Let me explain.