Fwd: Encrypting laptops ?

[Chip Fetrow]

Last I checked, Iron Key is a Windoz only product.  Maybe I am wrong,  
but it wasn't for Mac OS X.

Then again Apple's Mac OS X has file by file encryption, total drive  
encryption, password access (that can be bypassed) and password access  
that cannot be bypassed and requires the entire computer to be wiped.

Unix is similar, and I am not a Linux guy, but I believe it to be too.

--chip

On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:59:02 -0400
> From: Richard Barth <w3hwn at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Encrypting laptops ?
>
> At 01:50 PM 4/1/2011, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
>
>> An easier solution is to put your data on a "Ironkey" USB thumb  
>> drive.
>
> I have heard of the "Ironkey" thumb drive.  I have also read reports
> that many of the "encrypted"
> thumb drives on the market were designed so that the same keyword,
> fed directly to the drive, will
> open it.  Seems the "encryption" process involved taking whatever
> password you entered into the
> computer software and converting it to that universal drive key, so
> one was like another; they all responded to the same keyword fed
> directly to the drive.
>
> Is the Ironkey exempt from this nonsense?
>
> Dick