Isn't it time for the encrypted file system???

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:02 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Jeu 23 mars 2006 20:05, seth vidal a écrit :
> 
> > if I were in the same position I would, of course, use encrypted file
> > systems - but to have that overhead for the default is a bit extreme.
> >
> > Sounds like the IT group in corporation needs to stop being so naive.
> 
> What I find naïve is continuing to believe security can be special-cased.
> Do you think company users bother to report every single
> security-sensitive documents they manipulate ? Do you think home users
> think about it ?
> 
> Either you do it for everyone and it has a chance to be in place when
> it'll really be needed or you shouldn't bother at all. The kind of
> bureaucracy that would be needed to identify exactly what bits needed to
> be protected is just never going to happen.

I think if we made it the default we'll end up with a lot of users
unable to get into their data when a disk partially fails.

-sv