Re: time for my lil opinion poll

On 4/25/07, Ali, Saqib <docbook.xml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> what do you mean it doesn't work? These are content control systems
> that monitor the network gear and PCs to control the flow of the
> information.
>
> Obviously they are not fail-proof, just like traditional cryptography
> is not "unconditionally secure"

Because they don't actually do what the marketing people behind the
product say they do? Because they instill a false sense of security?

http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/data_loss_prevention/:
" Safeguard against loss of customer data, employee information, and
intellectual property from all possible channels. "

Yeah, right.

DS

>
> saqib
> http://www.full-disk-encryption.net
>
>
> On 4/25/07, Arun Koshy <arunkoshy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > A friend from the vuln research arena ( sorry .. no names etc ) told
> > me in a convo a few hours ago  that this does not work :
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Leak_Prevention
> >
> > Would like to know the community's opinion about the whole arena ..
> > both public and private responses ( if you can't be public ) are
> > welcome.
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