Take the case of one Granick client who used nothing more than a standard Web browser to discover the master password file of one Internet service provider that was not locked away as well as it should have been.
Virtually every SanDisk USB drive and all drives in the new suite include secure file encryption and password protection.
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Features include name-and-password log-in support, file and directory caching for quick access, firewall and proxy-server support, and UNIX file attribute support.
And for the ultimate in security, AES 256-bit encryption prevents unauthorised file access to the key with password protection.
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Cyber security researcher Robert David Graham found the published file from the Stratfor hack and used password-cracking tool oclHashtcat to crack the password over the weekend.
There are also highly-effective password management packages to help the rank-and-file manage their many passwords including LastPass, 1Password and RoboForm.
Since the inaugural "First Listen, " a nod from the series has become such a plum that NPR Music keeps record-label submissions in a secret computer file, accessible only to employees who have the password.
So a user simply has to chose a password and then the PGP system does all of the encryption and makes the file or the message secure.
He has issued a password along with instructions to a select group that provides access to a new and much larger communications file, one which many of those researchers and their sponsoring organizations have worked very hard to suppress from legal FOIA requests.
The file did not contain passwords or other information that could be used to re-set a password or confirm an identity, it said.
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