They always knew it could be done; that a hacker with enough time and processing power could watch your WPA-protected wireless network and, eventually, decrypt your precious datas. In under 15 minutes, though? “Inconceivable!” those hypothetical security experts would say — but they’re about to get a lesson from WiFi wizard Erik Tews. He’ll be giving a presentation next week at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo, describing the “mathematical breakthrough” that, he says, enables him to crack WPA-TKIP in 12 to 15 minutes.

The videos can probably still be recovered from your hard drive, provided they haven’t been overwritten. I don’t know of a way to do a multi-pass-type secure wipe on a shared drive, so all I could do was remove the flags indicating those blocks of data were important to keep.

See: Data remanence, Data recovery, Zeroisation.

On the basis of a minimal Google-based investigation, it seems that a ‘brilliante award’ is a kind of internet mind virus.

(I need those videos back. For reasons that are neither illegal, nor require me to send thousands of dollars in recompense to the Puerto Rican mob.)

You would never leave such videos in a place where some random buffoon could elimate them.

Where have they gone?!