The Fifth Circuit has handed down a fascinating computer search case in United States v. Reddick. Here's the question: If a private company runs a hash of a file and compares the hash to those of ...

In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...

Mostly we’re lazy. We go to a software publisher’s web site and download files and just assume that what’s in the file is what the publisher claims it to be. The problem is that these days web sites ...