> From: John Abreau [mailto:abre...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:49 PM > > I tried bitlocker on Windows 7 for a few of my colleagues last year. > But the IT director at the main office in Europe made me rip it out and > replace it with TrueCrypt in an effort to make all company laptops > worldwide share the same configuration.
That's a bummer. But now it doesn't matter anymore, does it. Because you can't use TrueCrypt. No matter what you use - Bitloker, some other, or zero encryption - It's not the same as all the other laptops worldwide. FWIW, I hear this a lot. A lot of companies standardize to the exclusion of positive change. Yes, I acknowledge the management simplification that comes as a result of standardization, but it comes at the price of stagnation. It makes otherwise-good companies unattractive to good employees. You should always have a subset of experimental setups, so you can explore new changes... And you should be open to re-standardization or multiple standards, in order to gain their benefits. In this case, Bitlocker would probably be more secure than truecrypt, because ... I don't know how you manage or communicate truecrypt passwords, but if you're standardizing on a large scale, that password management is your weak link in security. Incidentally, what *is* the problem with TrueCrypt anyway? It seems to me, a hard drive looks like a hard drive whether it's a HDD or SSD. I would expect it to be fine. Do they have any details anywhere, what is the problem? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss