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BOEING is adopting FDE on all laptops

Found the following on Bruce Schneier's blog:

(Scroll down-fifth post from the bottom)

I work for a major manufacturer of commercial and millitary aircraft. We have had a couple laptop thefts make the news over the last few years and we are switching to whole disk encryption on all of our laptops.

The key is assigned by company security so no token is required. Although the laptop will boot without any need to enter or have a key, you still need a domain or local account to log in. If you use a program like Norton Commander or some Linux boot CD, you cannot use the utilities to change the passwords or view the files on the drive because the drive is encrypted and therefore unreadable without booting from the drive first.

Posted by: Ron at January 7, 2007 10:27 PM

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/us_government_t.html

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I followed the link in the post by "Ron" on the Schneier Blog page, and found out that the post was written by Ron Hagerman, and that he is a Boeing employee.


http://www.rons-sandbox.com/?page_id=26

May 17, 2005
About Me
Filed under: Misc Crap — Ron @ 3:06 pm
My name is Ron Hagerman. I was born May 27th, 1968 in Stillwater Minnesota.

I have an Associates degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from ITT Technical Institute in Seattle Washington and a BS degree in Computer Science emphasizing in networking from City University
I am currently a Systems Design and Integration Specialist for The Boeing Company and have been doing that for 8 years. Before that, I fixed in flight phone systems for AT&T. I spend a good portion of my time developing databases in both SQL Server and Oracle. I also write scripts that monitor all aspects of the Boeing Enterprise using the HP OpenView Operations product.

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Boeing has about 155,000 employees

A company profile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing


So, out of 155,000 emplyees, how many will have laptops?