ITschak Mugzach wrote:

>Funny credit card story. Here in Israel, a company had all cc on an

>encrypted hd. The person used the desktop took the hd home, booted from the

>hd and copied all data. Then, from Thailand, he tried to blackmail his

>employee.

 

>What value encryption offers in this vase?

 

Indeed. This is why whole-disk (and, in most cases, whole-file and 
whole-database) encryption offers very little actual protection. 
Application-level encryption is much more secure…

 

…phsiii


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