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Some of you are aware that Vista SP1 is coming.

You may not know that it is breaking some programs [Zone Alarm Security Suite 7.1, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, and BitDefender 10] and has severe problems with drivers. SP1 has been held back until mid-March with a second version of SP1 coming out later this year that will fix driver problems.

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Note: Original article found at InformationWeek, Windows Vista SP1 Blocks Antivirus Programs.

A team at Princeton University has found a way to grab encryption keys from RAM and open encrypted volumes.

See the video, here.

To get additional information, including a white paper, additional photos, and more video go to the Princeton website, here.

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Note:

I found this thanks to The Register, Security boffins unveil BitUnlocker.

Listener Feedback 35

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.

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2007 Audio & Video

Every year a wonderful event happens, Black Hat Briefings & Trainings. If you can’t afford the cost, like I can’t, the audio and video files for Black Hat USA 2007 are available via iTunes. There you will also find the last two years [I think]. I have downloaded and listened to all of 2006 and have been anticipating the release of this years recordings. One day, this n00b will get to Vegas or DC for this event.

There are about 89 of these lectures/presentations. I will admit that I don’t always get everything and if it is boring to me - I will skip it. This is not light stuff - some of the material is very technical, out right funny, and much of it is very educational.

2008 DC, Europe, & USA

You can now register for each of these events. I will warn you that BH:DC is started today!!! Which means, I am a day late on getting this information out.

Now, you still have plenty of time to register for Europe & USA.

• Early registration is closed for Europe, however you can still register.
• Early registration for USA [Las Vegas] is open until the 1^st of May.

If you can afford the cost, GO! I would be there in a heartbeat [considering everything is good at home]. The main page for Black Hat can be found here.

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The Flexitarian

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Molly Wood, Jason Calacanis and Don Reisinger

HD DVDead, Blackberry and Amazon S3 outages, the eBay boycott, Microsoft-Yahoo and more.

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Free CompuSec

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Microsoft’s Super Patch Tuesday, Macintosh updates, Adobe Acrobat exploit, Firefox patch, Vista SP-1, and more.

get yours here.

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I have a Logitech MX3100 which has been replaced by the MX3200, and I really enjoy the mouse, it is fantastic!!! It is a large and comfortable mouse to use. I also have a Microsoft Trackball, yeah it is 5 years old, but it is large and comfortable to use. I am a man and I have standard man-sized hands. So I prefer to use a larger mouse than the typical user. This last November, I found a really nice looking Bluetooth mouse. The design in very nice and pretty straight forward. It has 5 buttons and an on/off switch. It comes in black and I really wanted it, in fact, it made it on the TechnoLUST list.

I was not sure if I really wanted to order the mouse or not; but every time I went online RadTech kept popping up and so I ordered the BT600. I was notified in the order process that the mouse was back-ordered. I decided, it must be pretty popular.

About 2 weeks ago I finally got my BT600, disappoint set in as soon as I opened the shipping box. The write up on the website said full-sized mouse. It didn’t look full-sized to me in fact it looked more like the wife’s notebook mouse I had been using [and am still stuck with]. As you can see in my picture that the BT600 is larger than a micro-mouse and smaller than my MX1000. I was saddened by this fact.

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