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How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? 468

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 09, 2009 @02:17PM from the first-step-is-teaching-people-how-not-to-be-stupid dept.

Dark Neuron writes "My institution has thousands of computers, and is looking at starting an IT policy to encrypt everything, all hard drives, including desktops, laptops, external hard drives, USB flash drives, etc. I am looking at an open source product for Windows, Mac, UNIX, as well as portable hard drives, but I am concerned about overhead and speed penalties. Does anyone have experience and/or advice with encrypting every single device in a similar situation?"

Comment Old jokes never die (Score 1) 197

by MajGeek on Thursday December 04, 2008 @02:11PM (#25991783) Attached to: Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries

This whole discussion is hilarious if you've ever been on a Navy ship. Am I the only one who remembers the salty old first class sending some poor sot of a new seaman running all over the ship looking for batteries for the sound-powered phones? Lots of fun for everyone, except the FNG, of course.

Comment Re:Just Hype (Score 1) 133

by MajGeek on Saturday November 29, 2008 @01:46PM (#25926103) Attached to: "Cyber Monday" Expected To Draw Virtual Crowds

The entire "holiday season" is marketing hype. I'm sorry, but seeing snowflakes and Santa in store windows before Halloween makes me want to move to a hut in the mountains or something.

Businesses do seem to be trying to reach out to online shoppers, though, the same way the brick-and-mortar stores do on Black Friday. They even have a website with hourly specials to entice reluctant people to pull out the plastic: http://www.cybermonday.com/

Marketing hype that at least acknowledges and even actively courts tech-literate people who don't visit "the maul" isn't all a bad thing.

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