[cap-talk] More Heresey: ACLs not inherently bad

[Karp, Alan H]

Raoul Duke wrote:
>
> if those things were encrypted, then you have to ask how much of a
> burden the decryption process is from a usability perspective. if it
> is a large burden, i would not be surprised when people then write the
> password down on a post-it note stuck to the same laptop etc.
>
Encryption can be made hard to use, but the Windows EFS is transparent to the user, and other approaches are equally easy to use.

________________________
Alan Karp
Principal Scientist
Virus Safe Computing Initiative
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-7029
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp