Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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A Military Aircraft Vendor Switches to FDE...

Found the following on Bruce Schneier's blog:

(Scroll down-Fourth 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


Could it be Boeing???