On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 16:18, Mike McCarty wrote: > [snip] > > It compromises "sharability". If the goal is to share info, then > > why encrypt? If the goal is to protect info, then physical security > > is the way to go. Adding encryption only slows down access in a > > case like that. > > After all the stories about laptops full of sensitive data being > stolen, and tapes full of sensitive data being lost, you still have > to ask why someone wants to encrypt private data?
It comes to mind; why all this data is on a "portable device" in the first place? -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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