Sunday, 15 July 2012

How to Encrypt your Tablet ?

Today’s workplace is becoming increasingly agreeable to the BYOD (bring your own device) concept: Employers are finally giving the green light for staffers to use their own equipment for work while they're at the office. For businesses, it's cheaper to let employees bring in their own laptops, smartphones, or tablets, since that cuts down on the need to purchase hardware (though not on the need to support it). Regardless, businesses seem to have little choice in the matter, since many employees are bringing their devices in whether they have permission or not--and some people are knowingly breaking the company’s security policy in doing so.
If you want to bring your own Android or iOS tablet to work, you should consider a couple of factors before taking the plunge. First, in some respects you lose ownership of your device once you commit to using it at work and keeping potentially sensitive data on it. Corporate intellectual property or client data is extremely valuable to your employer, and as such you lose certain freedoms regarding any device that contains that information. Mishandle that information, and you might lose your job.
Second, you have to think about how to secure the device against tampering, to protect its information and thereby minimize your loss of ownership. If you plan to store confidential material of any kind on your tablet, you’ll want to safeguard that data against the chance that you lose the device or let it slip into the wrong hands.
So how do you keep your data secure? You encrypt it. The field of data encryption is always changing, and you can encrypt your tablet in many different ways. Here are a few popular methods of tablet encryption that I was able to test.

Encryption Basics

For our purposes, encryption is a process that changes data in a way that makes it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t possess the key to unlock it. The data is, in theory, useless without the key, thus affording some measure of security in the case of theft or loss.
Tablet Encryption 101
Encryption itself is a complicated topic. For a PC, you can purchase encryption software or encrypted hardware, as well as products that encrypt the “whole” disc, including the Master Boot Record. The debate over which approach is better rages on.

The Lamborghini Diablo – The story of Lambo Cars

If any sports car on the market truly deserves the designation “supercar”, it’s the Italian-built Lamborghini Diablo.

The Lamborghini Diablo is a high-performance mid-engined sports car that was built by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1990 and 2001. It was the first Lamborghini capable of attaining a top speed in excess of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h). Diablo is "devil" in Spanish, which is diavolo in Italian.

Lamborghini Diablo was launched in 1990 as successor to the legendary Countach, carrying on Lamborghini's tradition of naming its cars after breeds of fighting bull. With more money, no wonder the Lamborghini Diablo was better developed than any other previous Lamborghini. In the words of Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the Lamborghini Diablo was designed "solely to be the biggest head-turner in the world". Eventually, it survived for 11 years and 2884 cars were built, breaking the record held by Countach. Like Countach and many other Lamborghinis, it was designed by Italian styling maestro Marcello Gandini. No wonder the car had strong resemblance to its predecessor, such as slant front end, steeply raked windscreen and scissors doors.


Lamborghini Diablo GT 2011
Lamborghini Diablo GT 2011
Its styling meant velocity, acceleration and power. Even in standstill, its appearance told you it was a 200mph supercar, no, perhaps 250mph! If you let me name the most successful supercar design during the 1990s, Lamborghini Diablo will always be the first one I would think of.