<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 June 2012 10:03, Mike Cardwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nlug@lists.grepular.com" target="_blank">nlug@lists.grepular.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>Historically Windows has been insecure because it put usability ahead<br>
of security and has let users do stupid things. Modern Windows is<br>
getting much much better though. Windows 7 seems to actually be pretty<br>
decent. It will be interesting to watch Windows 8 struggle on the desktop.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I'm just as interested, it has the potential to be a raging success or </div><div>another Windows Millenium moment.</div>
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I wont be happy until full disk encryption is the default, and you<br>
have to go out of your way to disable it. I suspect that would make<br>
your job a little bit harder though ;) Just out of interest, what<br>
proportion of the machines you receive for analysis, use full disk<br>
encryption? How about the GNU/Linux ones?<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>Er - none. I come across encrypted containers all the time but FDE - I've </div><div>yet to see it. Most of the Linux machines are Ubuntu variants where </div><div>encrypting the /home directory is just a matter of ticking a check box </div>
<div>during setup but it seems that even this simple expedient isn't being done. </div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></div>