As you may or may not know, I am gainfully employed by the Federal Government in the area of Information Security. Recently the Bush Administration responded to media hype to issue a Federal Mandate requiring all government owned laptops use encryption technologies to encrypt their data.
There are two interpretations of this memo.
- Encrypt the ENTIRE disk.
- Encrypt just the files containing the data.
So, what’s a lowly security administrator to do?! Choices are bad! Obviously you encrypt the entire disk! Right?! no? Why not?
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