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DEFCON Level for the iOS 7 Email Attachment Encryption Bug: MacBreak Weekly 401 – Video

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DEFCON Level for the iOS 7 Email Attachment Encryption Bug: MacBreak Weekly 401
Leo, Alex, Andy and Rene debate what the DEFCON readiness level would be for the iOS 7 email attachment encryption bug. For the full episode, visit http://twit.tv/mbw401.

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Forums: encryption headaches, iPhone health risks and more

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This week in the MacNN forums, members discuss iPhone health risks, encryption headaches and more. Mac Elite "jeff k" has been having trouble with encryption on an external hard drive. Yesterday one frightened Fresh-Faced Recruit turned to the forums looking for answers after reading about health risks involved with iPhone use, and wondered if it was a problem for someone who uses the phone for four hours a day.

Today Dedicated MacNNer "gregfripp" has been having problems with Vidx on their iMac and turned to the forums looking for some advice. Late last week one Mac Enthusiast asks if it is OK to use 1/8" mono plug with an iPhone 4 and 5, an answer has yet to be found. One long time forum member is looking for a good way to store hashes as raw binary data of up to 6TB and asks fellow forum goers.

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EMC embarks on all-singing, all-dancing VNX jamboree

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EMC World 2014 EMC has had a VNXgasm and announced future software for VNX, plus a buffed up VNXe box, a VSPEX addition, and the company is also making more encryption options available.

The VNX software is coming via Project Liberty and thus includes freedom from hardware lock-in presumably, and is virtualised storage software that is based on the VNX platform. EMC talks of a variety of deployment models, saying it could be used by test and developers to spin up virtual VNX arrays for virtual servers and ROBO locations, hybrid public/private cloudy deployments, and in software-defined data centres.

You get the feeling that EMC sees VNX primarily as a test-and-dev thing and not a serious software storage array like HP's StoreVirtual or VMware's VSAN or, indeed, its own ScaleIO. It will be an on-ramp to speed VNX-dependent app development.

The Liberty development has to embrace, we suppose, both the VNXe and the VNX software environments, which are different; VNXe's software being more integrated in the file and block area.

With VNX and VMAX now in the same engineering organisation inside EMC we might see even see a software VMAX.

There is a new VNXe entry-level system, the VNXe3200 and it's a souped up model that has been given Fibre Channel connectivity; welcome to the big guys storage networking club you little iSCSI and NAS squirt.

VNXe3200

Basically it's the addition of the same VNX technology enhancements from last September applied to a VNXe box.

It gets MCx multi-core controller processor optimisations, FAST Cache SSD caching and FAST VP auto-tiering, like the full-fledged VNX arrays. EMC might as well drop the 'e' from VNXe. (FAST Means Fully-Automated Storage Tiering.) Here's a table of config details:

The VNXe range used to have two members; VNXe3300 and a 3150. It now appears to have just the 3200.

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EMC embarks on all-singing, all-dancing VNX jamboree