Adam Baum <bomb@xxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2414092.8uBtNFQf7h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hardware-based encryption will win in the laptop market
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Software-based encryption required about 20 to 30 percent CPU
>> utilization for
>> | cryptographic operations. CPU utilization using a Seagate encrypting
>> hard
>> | drive was zero percent. What about overall system latency? The hardware
>> | introduces almost none; you are talking microseconds.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9802700-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>>
>> Microsoft plays with the Establishment, so Windows will always be easily
>> penetrable, even with encryption.
>
> Really. So now *---> Seagate <---* encrypting controllers are also
> controlled by Microsoft.
>
Whilst you're clearly being deliberately obtuse, it's worth emphasising
to anyone reading who genuinely doesn't understand the issues, the point
Roy is making is that Windows itself is so thoroughly penetrated by
security offices and crooks and criminals that encrypting data on a
hard drive is pointless, since security officers and crooks merely read
the data via Windows anyway.
If you want security, then Linux is a safer approach, but nothing will
ever be 100% secure.
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