As this article attacked the feature I personally worked on in Karmic, I felt it appropriate to respond in my blog at http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/11/register-bloodied-by-lack-of-research.html.
Typically, I read and respect The Register. They usually run intriguing technology articles that make me think. I'm quite disappointed with today's carelessly researched piece, specifically, the paragraphs regarding eCryptfs.
Lack of automation? In Ubuntu 9.10, encrypting your home directory is a matter of selecting a check box in the installer: That's it. 9.04 Encrypted Home upgrading users simply run update-manager and upgrade all packages to 9.10. Their home directory encryption is not affected by this.
The author of this article found one post in the Ubuntu Forums poorly articulating an issue with home directory encryption and suddenly Ubuntu 9.10 users are getting "bloodied" by encryption in Ubuntu? Seriously?
I expect better journalism from The Register...
:-Dustin

In September 2008, I blogged a similarly glowing review, http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2008/09/book-review-daemon-by-leinad-zeraus.html A few months later, the publisher contacted me and supplied me with 3 copies of the new hardback, which I gave away through a series of cryptographic challenges over the last 3 weeks. It's an excellent book, and a must-read for anyone interested in the techno-thriller genre. Cheers, :-Dustin