Sentences with phrase «unencrypted data»
"Unencrypted data" refers to information that is not encoded or protected. This means that anyone who has access to it can read or understand it easily. It is like writing a message on a postcard, where anyone who handles it can see what it says. Full definition
And a former employee of the data firm described having recently seen hundreds of gigabytes of unencrypted data files on Cambridge servers.
nytimes.com
The laptop of one of its employees, containing unencrypted data on hundreds of the company's customers, was stolen from the employee's car.
A large amount of unencrypted data reflecting ebook loan and purchase transactions was being collected and transmitted to Adobe servers.
Because, for example, as it has been said many times, transmitting unencrypted data over a network (especially wifi), is akin to sending confidential files by postcard, which can clearly be read along the way.
Courts globally are just beginning to wrestle with whether they can order people to turn over encryption keys or passwords, or to produce unencrypted data, and what limits, if any, to put on searches for electronic evidence that might be buried in a sea of unrelated, private data.
Then there are the law firms that use services such as Gmail to manage and maintain their email containing confidential information or the staff that bring their laptops home and traveling which contain completely insecure operating systems and unencrypted data.
They can easily store away all of the unencrypted data sent out from your computer — including all hotmail messages (and blog comments).
If you have sensitive data on your drive and you're concerned someone might attempt to examine your drive and recover the data, you should select at least «1 - pass (random data)» to overwrite your unencrypted data with random data, making it difficult to impossible to recover.