Cheesy names for brute-force login tools, yes,
but who said security geeks need to be good at marketing?
Check out the comparison here.
Medusa
by Louise Bogan
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky.
Everything moved, — a bell hung ready to strike,
Sun and reflection wheeled by.
When the bare eyes were before me
And the hissing hair,
Held up at a window, seen through a door.
The stiff bald eyes, the serpents on the forehead
Formed in the air.
This is a dead scene forever now.
Nothing will ever stir.
The end will never brighten it more than this,
Nor the rain blur.
The water will always fall, and will not fall,
And the tipped bell make no sound.
The grass will always be growing for hay
Deep on the ground.
And I shall stand here like a shadow
Under the great balanced day,
My eyes on the yellow dust, that was lifting in the wind,
And does not drift away.
Now, auditors unite and go turn those passwords into dust…
Buffalo seems to have a pretty nice setup for external storage and now they are offering an AES-capable utility. I like their cartoon that explains why you need encryption, or “SecureLockWare” as they call it, and the fact that you can download the software for free. Appears to do whole disk as well as file and folder.
Now, if I could just find a vendor that offered a fire-proof external case for four SATA drives in RAID (one “hot” spare, ha) with a combo lock latch, all of which can be bolted to the concrete floor…
Teacher: “Can anyone find the flaw in this security system?”
Student: “The keys hide a secret that can be used to decrypt all the data if they are compromised.”
Teacher: “Excellent! Exactly right, but if these keys are compromised then the whole system is probably already lost.”
