Comment Why doesn't NASA Just.... (Score 1) 226
An awful lot of people in this thread have quick and simple "just do this" solutions for NASA's data encryption challenges.
NASA isn't your standard corporate environment - there are serious challenges to any "Just do X" solution. They DO need to encrypt everything but its not a simple single-answer thing. They have to accommodate every scenario from "HR newbie with PII data in an office envrionment" to "Laptop collecting data on a C-130 as it flies through hurricanes" to "Laptops controlling robots in the desert during field tests sulating Martian environments".
In many of those cases a laptop with broken
encryption software means millions of wasted dollars if the experiment is a wash.
In other cases NOT having crypto means serious secrecy issues.
Anyway, there's no excuse for this loss but could we please stop pretending that NASA literally never considered DAR on mobile devices, and that simply doing {your favorite product} on everything would solve all the problems?
Thanks....