Encryption, Privacy and the Dark Side of the Internet was written by Duane Croft, a Norman, Oklahoma lawyer with an engineering background. This Oklahoma Bar Journal article covers encryption in depth, while still being readable for the lawyer with only basic knowledge on the topic. Certainly today's lawyer does need to understand the basics
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What I am Reading Today (Legal Ethics and Money)
By Jim Calloway on
I know "what I'm reading" is not a great title for a blog post. But I've noted a lot of good reading material that I wanted to pass along to you today.
Law Society of British Columbia's Cloud Computing Checklist Lawyers are quite correctly concerned about cloud computing because law practices deal with confidential client.
Facebook Privacy Policy- The oxymoron that can even bite non-Facebook users
By Jim Calloway on
One Oklahoma lawyer has declined to participate in Facebook, in part because of the horror stories about privacy breaches. You would think that would make her safe from inadvertent disclosures of information via Facebook. But think again.
This lawyer loves phtography and she had shared photos she made with her friend via text message and…
Deleting Web History Before Google Gathering Takes Effect
By Jim Calloway on
The clock is ticking. March 1 is your deadline. Most lawyers with Google Accounts will want to read and act on this ABA Journal article: Want to Delete Web History Before Google Gathering Takes Effect? EFF Shows How. After reading the article, I logged into my Google account and was frankly amazed at the…
Secure Passwords- You are the weakest link
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This month's Law Practice magazine brings an interesting feature from Sharon Nelson and John Simek titled Creating Secure Passwords: The Rules Have Changes (Again). They cite some researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology who put together some fast CPU's with clusters of graphics cards to crack eight-character passwords in less than two hours.
The Dangers of Photo Geotagging
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Here's a scary story about technology. A recent New York Times story Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live begins like this:
"When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program 'MythBusters,' posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more …
Scrubbing Metadata from PDF Files
By Jim Calloway on
A PDF file created from a Microsoft Word document contains less metadata than the original Word document. There is less potentially embarassing metadata, like deleted comments. For a lawyer, perhaps the scariest type of metadata would be a comment made by a client on a document that was then deleted, but might be somehow viewed…
Your Old Office Copier As Jailhouse Snitch (Part 2)
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I wasn't the only one who noted the CBS story on copiers holding much data this week. Steve Miller also blogged about it on The LawBill Blog
I note his conclusion:
- "Today we sent an email blast to each of our law firm clients recommending that
they contact their copier leasing company and request a
…
Your Old Office Copier Can Turn Jailhouse Snitch
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People can turn on you. But you may not have thought that your old copier would turn into an informant against you. But, why not? You've kicked it to the curb, told it to get out of your life, replaced it with a new cuter model and now it is incarcerated in a warehouse with…
Do FTC “Red Flag” Rules Apply to Law Firms?
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UPDATE: The FTC announced this week that it will delay enforcement of the Red Flags Rule until November 1, 2009.
A new Federal Trade Commission rule proposes requiring businesses to have a written plan to identify and respond to "Red Flags" indicating possible identity theft. Failure to comply may result in several government sanctions. Many feel that these should not apply…