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Whole Disk Encryption For Vista?
Q7U writes "After reading about several laptop thefts and losses, my boss wants me to set up whole disk encryption for her Vista travel laptop. After doing some research, it seems she has three options: Bitlocker (part of Vista Ultimate), PGP Whole Disk Encryption, and TrueCrypt. My main problem now is choosing one. I can't find any comparitive reviews of these products to determine which will be the best choice, so I was hoping the Slashdot crowd could suggest which product they would go with and tell us what they liked about their choice."
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There is only one answer: TrueCrypt. Note that version 6.0a is much more powerful than earlier versions.
Commercial software cannot be trusted with something so important, for two reasons:
U.S. government surveillance: All of the U.S. government's many secret departments believe that they can order executives of companies that do business in the U.S. to a) provide any help they want so that they can accomplish surveillance, and b) put the executives in prison if they reveal the corruption. So, any software that has ever been under U.S. control, or has been corrupted by the U.S. government, cannot be trusted.
Often employees of U.S. government secret departments take jobs in commercial companies, and pretend to be normal employees, while serving illegal purposes of the secret departments. So even companies in other countries cannot be trusted.
Please check this carefully if you doubt it. The U.S. government uses what is called signing statements, which at present basically mean that a U.S. president can authorize breaking any law, merely by signing his name. That corrupt system has been used to challenge hundreds of laws.
Closed source software cannot be trusted until the secret employees of the U.S. government are tried for treason, and an open government is established. It does not seem that will happen soon.
The Bush and Cheney families and friends and associates are oil and weapons investors, and they use secret surveillance as a way getting what they want, no matter how illegal. For example, the U.S. government is already fighting a war with Iran. There is talk of "diplomacy", but that is only to limit awareness of what the corrupters are doing. There are three groups of people who want war with Iran: weapons investors, oil investors, and Jews. The situation is the same as before invading Iraq. There was talk of diplomacy, but the leaders in Iraq knew that the U.S. government would invade, no matter what was said, so they acted in a hysterical fashion.
The purpose of invading Iran seems to be the same as the purpose of invading Iraq: to restrict the supply of oil even further, so that oil prices will rise even further. Weapons investors want continuous war, and an invasion of Iran would almost certainly cause that.
Changes in company management: A trustworthy company may be sold to another, less well-managed company. The less well-managed company may outsource some changes, or hire an employee that is not trustworthy. One of the changes can be the inclusion of a back door, or some other corruption. That's only one example. There are many other ways that there can be such problems with closed-source software.
Yes, totally true except that on Vista the hibernation file is on the root disk drive and automatically encrypted under bitlocker... Hibernate's not a problem for Windows + Bitlocker.
Just because you read some exploit again some disk encryption software on Slashdot months back doesn't make it true for all encryption software. You should check these things before you post crap.
I wish /. mods with goldfish memories and a vendetta against Microsoft would stop modding things like this up.
*awaits his -1 troll, the same -1 troll he gets 99% of the time he corrects people with "facts".*