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THE DUTCH COUNCIL OF STATE will let loose the software it uses to convert proprietary document formats created in MS Office into Open Source documents which follow the Open Document Format (ODF) protocol.
Article continues at The Inquirer.
The Inquirer cites this as their source.

A fascinating 5 minute video describing the key point in a paper from Princeton.

http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

Apparently all disk encryption schemes have a fundamental weakness that allows a simple attack to recover the keys. There is nothing to DO about this yet, but I think awareness is important.

The research paper is also linked above.

Security checklist

1. Restrict physical access
2. ...