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BitLocker gives dual-boot systems the elbow | |
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| Time: 07:48 EST/12:48 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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Infosec Security features introduced in Windows Vista will make setting up PCs to boot in either Linux or Windows far more difficult, according to security guru Bruce Schneier. Vista is due to feature hardware-based encryption, called BitLocker Drive Encryption, which acts as a repository to protect sensitive data in the event of a PC being either lost or stolen. This encryption technology also has the effect of frustrating the exchange of data needed in a dual boot system. "You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it frustrates dual boot," Schneier told El Reg. Schneier said Vista will bring forward security improvements, but cautioned that technical advances are less important than improvements in how technology is presented to users. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/28/2006 2:06:47 PM |
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""You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it frustrates dual boot," "
You could also look at it as pro-security. Its a feature laptops with confidential information should all be using since laptops do get lost or stolen. What kind of charlatan passes himself off as a "security guru" when he is against encrypting confidential data? Oh .. right ... an OSS fanatic. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 4/28/2006 3:59:02 PM |
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#1: I wasn't aware that Bruce Schneier was an OSS fanatic, but if you say so then it must be true.
At any rate, he is off the mark on this one. |
| #3 By 17996 (66.235.19.95) at 4/29/2006 6:25:49 PM |
| Of course BitLocker "[frustrates] the exchange of data needed in a dual boot system." That's the point. If your computer is stolen, and someone puts in a second hard drive with Linux installed and boots up with that, BitLocker is designed to keep them from getting at the data on your Windows drive. Same thing for bootable Linux CDs. |
| #4 By 23603 (70.82.83.103) at 4/29/2006 9:28:55 PM |
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Why Dual Boot anyway??
Get Virtual... |
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