Sentence examples for data in unencrypted form from inspiring English sources
Last week saw the revelation that the Apple iPhone keeps track of where its owner has been and that it stores the data in unencrypted form on the phone, where it can be easily read by anyone with a modicum of technical knowledge.
This creates an opportunity for an alert intruder lurking on the network to steal the data in unencrypted form.
Few now contend for a master key to all communications held by the state, for a requirement to hold data locally in unencrypted form, or for a guaranteed facility to insert back doors into any telecommunications system.
Home Office officials said Friday that the prisoners' information had been transferred to the consultants in encrypted form, but that the consultants had then put it in unencrypted form onto the memory stick.
That means the government can often see messages in unencrypted forms, even if sent from a BlackBerry.
Officials in India have maintained that the government has the right to monitor all voice and data communications in an unencrypted form under technology laws and the licenses through which wireless phone companies operate.
"We've found that 90% of the time data is left in an unencrypted form in databases," he says.
In modern architectures, there are inviolable spaces where data passes through in raw, unencrypted form, such as inside the kernel, the most central software unit in the architecture, or in system memory carefully set aside from other applications.
"The use of hacking, bulk data retention and a demand for encrypted data to be available in an unencrypted form all have the potential to expose us and make us more vulnerable in this hyper connected, big data controlled times". .
On the very vexed question of encryption of the net – which David Cameron has vowed to ban in 2016 – Anderson says that companies should hand over the keys only after properly authorised requests but says that a master key held by the state or ideas for all data to be held locally in a unencrypted form are non-starters.
But both programs leave the keys in computer memory in an unencrypted form.
