The release also claims that user information on Sonypictures.com was stored in unencrypted, plain text format.
Much of the information taken in the Sony hacks was unencrypted and easily readable.
Almost all public networks allowed data such as user names and passwords to pass through the air unencrypted.
And naturally, users receive all the unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM) channels offered by their cable provider.
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Making a visible and unencrypted file on iOS devices could make it accessible to anyone who uses the phone.
But the doctor forgot and lost the unencrypted device on the way home.
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Google is in trouble in Europe and Asia for accidentally collecting unencrypted WiFi data during some of its roving adventures.
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"There is no reason for the application to be caching locations of private photos completely unencrypted, " wrote Aaron Souppouris for The Verge.
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But many web services remain unencrypted, and users often fail to enable encryption or browse away from sites with fake encryption certificates.
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He said the password could also have been stolen when an employee was accessing the unsecured version of the site over an unencrypted wi-fi network.
Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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Many tech insiders have been bleating for years about a privacy flaw inherent in unencrypted browsing that lets hackers snoop on your Web activity.
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All the rest of the breached data, including phone numbers, passwords, email addresses, usernames, birth dates and account histories, was left unencrypted and vulnerable.
But there is very little to stop Google should it decide there is a compelling need to closely inspect unencrypted packets hitting its DNS servers.
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Baked right inside the matte plastic case is a dual tuner capable of pulling in unencrypted basic cable channels and over-the-air HD broadcasts.
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Unencrypted Blu-Rays will work in the native player (with the right decoder) and several improvements have been made to video playback and the bundled codec library.
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The unencrypted USB pen drive, containing a 'stress test' safety assessment of the Hartlepool plant, was lost by an employee of the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).
Even simple mistakes can lead to big-time consequences because we know that somewhere out there, a manager has left a laptop with unencrypted data in her car.
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The ONR, which is an agency of the Health and Safety Executive, said the use of unencrypted devices for transporting documents with a security classification was not allowed.
Last November, it emerged that 25m child benefit records had been lost after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent two unregistered and unencrypted discs to the National Audit Office.
For instance, TheVerge.com reported that the photo gallery that comes pre-installed on Android phones by Samsung, LG, and some other manufacturers stores unencrypted copies of complete addresses associated with photos.
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As was admitted by Google in response to an inquiry from the Commissioner for Data Protection, content data of unencrypted Wifi connections had also been recorded in the course of this activity.
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This includes stealing your wallet or purse, posing as someone who needs information about you, looking through your trash, or stealing information you provide to an unsecured website or in an unencrypted email.
Those folders were home to some 126 billion files that contain everything from personal data hosted by a social networking service, sales records, video game source code and even unencrypted backups of databases.
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In addition, you should consider avoiding plaintext-password network services: The POP3, FTP, and Telnet daemons pose a special risk because their passwords pass unencrypted across the open network, sniffable by any nearby machine along the way.
But Mr Shtylman acknowledged on a forum that he had recently carried out an upgrade of his systems and stored an unencrypted copy of the keys during the process, which the thief took advantage of.
But during the process of encryption, unencrypted copies of those files were stored in the unallocated space, where discarded files are temporarily kept in pieces without the identifying data to find them or reassemble them easily.
Compulsory audits, he suggested, would not eliminate all problems but could cut out on incidences of sensitive information "being sent to the wrong fax machine or dropped in the street or left on an unencrypted memory stick".
The search firm says that an experimental software project designed to gather data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks was accidentally rolled out along with its Street View initiative, which uses cameras mounted on cars to film streets and buildings.
Now with security and huge improvements in speed we are back to mainframes, but in a much different level of technology with VPNs and so on for security as people put on data on sticks unencrypted and lose it all the time.
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