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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 Re:The Grand Tube Experiment (Score 1) 224

by trulore on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @03:19PM (#25978575) Attached to: Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters

What about seatbelt laws and helmet laws?

Those are becoming increasingly common in the U.S., and the only purpose of such a law is to protect you from yourself.

We have (unfortunately) an increasing amount of precedence for giving our government the authority to protect us from ourselves.

Comment Re:Women don't want to do CS? (Score 1) 1563

by trulore on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @02:00PM (#25804727) Attached to: Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science?

Not so fast...

I know a few women who have chosen Nursing because it offered flexible hours and strong job security...and they seem to think Nursing provides a healthier lifestyle that way.

Programming jobs tend to be project and deadline driven, and it's very difficult to even carve out 1 week for vacation without risking some project you are on.

Nursing jobs tend to be a little more interchangeable, and that makes it easier to work around an employee who wants to take a lot of time off or go on maternity leave. (This is what I've been told anyway. I'm not a nurse.)

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