Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:42:29 -0500, Ivan Krsti?
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Adam Shostack wrote:
> > Just a nit:  as I understand things, Bitlocker is available, but not
> > on, by default.  Someone needs to actively flip a switch to make it
> > go.
> 
> Ah, okay. The notes I jotted down from MacIver's talk at HITB in
> Malaysia indicate he said it was on by default in the upper versions,
> but I could well have written it down incorrectly. Thanks for the
> correction.
> 
My understanding is that that was the plan, but concern about lost
passwords made them change their minds.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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