__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 07:31 \__
>> OK, however, if it's your system and you are so unfortunate as to
>> have some of your valuable work under a Microsoft Windows when
>> that "false positive" happens, then what failure rate is that?
>
> Dear Martha,
>
> That's when you load Linux on your system and copy your files to a
> Linux partition. But if you wait until Vista comes out, from what I
> hear, MS intends to use encryption to prevent other OSes from accessing
> Windows files, and you'll be out of luck.
I believe that filesystem encryption will be disabled by
default, but that can change through alternation of defaults
before release time or by strong user encouragement. In
fact, given that Vista was already shown to be 'hijackable',
it would be natural to suggest data-preserving precautions.
Add to this the fact that the pre-Office 2007 era, as well
as he era of Star/OpenOffice 2 may be you last chance to
escape proprietary in a non-lossy fashion (the safe route).
We shall see if she killfiled me permanently. If someone
replies to my post, she'll be forced to face the truths.
Even just a <bump> followup (with quoted text) would do.
Thanks in advance...
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