{"id":540,"date":"2006-02-15T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T11:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/02\/15\/windoze_vista_to_encrypt_hard_drives"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:06:03","slug":"windoze_vista_to_encrypt_hard_drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/02\/15\/windoze_vista_to_encrypt_hard_drives","title":{"rendered":"Windoze Vista to encrypt hard drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4713018.stm\">The BBC reports<\/a> about the UK government&#39;s concern that Windows Vista, the upcoming new version of Windows, will make it more difficult for the police to search people&#39;s computers for illegal materials.  Guess why that is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe system uses BitLocker Drive Encryption through a chip called TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in the computer&#39;s motherboard.<br \/>\nIt is partly aimed at preventing people from downloading unlicensed films or media.<br \/>\n&quot;This means that <strong>by default your hard disk is encrypted by using a key that you cannot physically get at<\/strong>&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;An unfortunate side effect from law enforcement is it would be technically fairly seriously difficult to dig encrypted material out of the system if it has been set up competently.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(More at <a href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/archives\/002366.php\">A Fistful of Euros<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports about the UK government&#39;s concern that Windows Vista, the upcoming new version of Windows, will make it more difficult for the police to search people&#39;s computers for illegal materials. Guess why&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-8I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42577,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/42577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}