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BitLocker offers safe way to trash hard drives | |
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| Time: 00:05 EST/05:05 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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In today's world, when the time comes to retire an old hard drive, many users wipe the device clean before they kick it to the curb. That's the smart and safe thing to do, mainly because the drive may contain sensitive information. According to Microsoft UK's Nick McGrath, erasing drives before disposal is a thing of the past thanks to Windows Vista's new BitLocker drive encryption technology. Speaking at Infosecurity 2006, McGrath told the audience, "With Vista and Bitlocker, businesses will be able to throw hard disks away and be sure (they are) secure." Almost daring hackers to try to decrypt a BitLocker-protected drive, McGrath continued, "The technology itself is 100 percent secure--we will not be producing any backdoors." His statement was in response to some accusations that Windows Vista would include backdoors essentially allowing police to decrypt hard drives in order to obtain sensitive information about suspects. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 4/27/2006 8:48:15 AM |
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It's a bold statement, and apparent marketing hype, that any technology is 100% secure, especially coming from Microsoft who should know better by now. Is the comment a prediction that no one will ever crack the encryption, or political PR indicating that only today is it uncrackable. In either case its an unwise near-manic comment.
"It depends on what the meaning of is is" |
| #2 By 2459 (24.175.137.39) at 4/27/2006 10:45:07 AM |
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"The technology itself is 100 percent secure--we will not be producing any backdoors."
Clearly he's only talking about it being 100% secure in terms of them not artificially weakening it by including backdoors, etc. The statement doesn't imply anything in the context of hackability other than that hackers won't have any help from MS providing them a weakened product. |
| #3 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 4/27/2006 3:45:38 PM |
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MS will not intentionally produce a backdoor. Okay. But, what program has ever been infallible over time? I applaude improvements, who doesn't? But the hype should be kept under control. Let the performance of the product speak for itself. MS is mature enough as a company that they should understand that by now. To under promise and over perform is always well received. A big reason that many people think of MS as an "evil empire" is the continuing hype that generally falls short over time.
I like MS products because I never expect the company's promises of performance or future features to be met in full. I have had few dissapointments with this viewpoint. |
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