Are laptop search & seizures increasing use of disk crypto?

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Oct 26 14:05:17 EDT 2006


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:29:52 +0530, Udhay Shankar N <udhay at pobox.com>
wrote:

> Like the subject says - I'm curious whether the current regime of 
> inspection and "forensic analysis" of laptops, primarily in the US, 
> has affected corporate policies regarding disk crypto.
> 
> Is there anybody studying this? Any resources available online?
> 

There was a related story in Tuesday's NY Times
(http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/business/24road.html for
subscribers -- and get there before Tuesday, so you don't have to pay), on
"At U.S. Borders, Laptops Have No Right to Privacy".

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

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