[Gllug] Secure filing system?

[Christian Smith]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:47:07PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    My local council has been fined 80,000 pounds after the thefts of a
> couple of laptops containing insecure, unencrypted, data on residents. Does
> any secure encrypted filing system exist on Microsoft?
> 


At IBM, we must use hard drive passwords before a disk becomes readable.
Being part of the HD hardware, it prevents reading the disk from a cold
start without a valid password.

>From a warm boot scenario (suspend to RAM for example) I suppose it could be
defeated by forcing the hardware to reset without powering off the machine,
so not bullet proof. Still, most laptops I know don't actually have a
reset switch, so you'd still have to defeat the software or open the case
with power still on to find and trigger some internal reset. A lot of work
for sensitive but low value information.

Don't councils even employ this minimal level of security?

Christian
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