Rachelise,
You said exactly what I was thinking as I was following the discussions.
It is amazing to me the TYPE of information that people put on their personal computers and store there. Especially portable ones such as notebooks and laptops.
I understand their is a big difference in the sensitivity of business information that may contain files that are best secured, locked up, encrypted, and stored safely, and just in case we forget the password or lose it and the key, it can be retrieved.
To me, I think the need for personal computer hdd's to be fde is not critical. It would be a safeguard and and greater protection of course, but if one is smart enough to not store personal information, and files that are not backed up on a separate portable HDD, who cares if my computer does not have TDM or an FDE drive in it? I shouldn't be worried one bit.
I know this won't be a popular statement, but it is true.
I can see the need for all the business portables that you described and for the enterprise servers for those corporations, which hopefully one day will mean people can simply access sensitive data from the server and not have it reside on their individual hard drive. That would be a wonderful thing, and it should easily be possible.
You brought up a very valid point in my opinion.
Thank you,
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