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YouSendIt Updates Apps, Adds Android & Mac

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Lawyers struggle with confidentiality related to communicating with clients in a secure way.  While e-mail has been accepted as a reliable method, if only because of an expectation of privacy, you may be more concerned about sending an attachment.  Yousendit.com is frequently mentioned in legal technology circles as an easy and reliable way to send large files.  You upload the file to Yousendit’s Web site and your recipient accesses it there.

Microsoft Outlook users could quickly send files using a plug-in.  Yousendit has recently updated their Windows and iPad software and have now added an Android app and support (still beta) for Macintosh OS.  Yousendit supports e-signing as well as secure e-mail, and may be a good way for lawyers to send and receive files from clients and keep them in a native, electronic format.

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Securing Your Online Access for E-mail, Research Data

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When you are managing online information, you are probably storing some of that information online, whether it’s your Web-based e-mail or your online bookmarks.  I wrote a piece for the Slaw.ca blog in September on using encrypted connections.  But your connection is just one piece of the puzzle.

Google has added a help tool in its support area to help you assess your online security.  It is a checklist that walks you through a number of possible risk areas, including your computer, your Web browser, your Google accounts and, if you use it, your Gmail settings.  In some ways, it’s almost too general to be helpful.  It doesn’t actually test anything.  But if you aren’t sure what your possible threat areas are, it may be able to identify some of them.  It even has a progress meter, to show how many of the steps you’ve completed.  This meter didn’t actually work for me, but if it does for you, it can help you to get a sense of how much work you might need to do to harden your online access!

[via Lifehacker]

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Google Encrypted Moves: Lawyers Search Confidentially

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I mentioned that Google was enabling an encrypted search, which may be a preferable way to search on topics that you need to keep confidential.  They have moved the search from:

https://www.google.com

to

https://encrypted.google.com

The new URL enables some organizations to use encrypted search while keeping their Web filters in place.  It may not be a permanent move.

[ via ReadWriteWeb , eWeek]

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Is Encrypted Search Part of Your Future?

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When you perform legal research using online tools, you leave a trace of the information you seek.  Whether you are using a client or party name or topical keywords related to your matter, your keywords are logged by search engines.  In fee-based databases, it is just the publisher who tracks this information; on the Web, each Web site you visit will see your search terms.  More importantly, if you are using an insecure network, like a home or coffee shop wireless network, other people may be able to tap into your search stream and see what you are researching.  The reality is that online research in fee-based or free tools is relatively focused, so searches are unlikely to divulge much on their own.

There may still be some times that you want to keep your search encrypted, though.  In the past, this has meant encrypting your entire online experience, using a virtual private network (VPN) or connecting only to Web sites using the secure sockets layer.  On those sites, the Web address changes from http:// to https://, reflecting an encrypted connection.

If you add that s to Google’s address – https://www.google.com/ – you will arrive at Google’s new encrypted search service, which has just moved to beta.  It is hard to know whether this is a trend in search and how long it will be in beta.  But it means that when you search, your search terms are not available to third parties, whether the sites that you visit online or people around you who might be able to see your online activity.  There may be some research where, just for peace of mind, you will feel better trying the encrypted Google for your research.

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