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Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Nov 3 12:58:43 2006
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 13:08:19 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Ivan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Krsti=3F?= <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
Cc: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>,
Saqib Ali <docbook.xml@gmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <454A11E5.2060009@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:42:29 -0500, Ivan Krsti?
<krstic@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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
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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