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Seagate Technologies today announced the availability of the first laptop hard drive with native encryption capabilities, which is aimed at protecting data if a machine is lost or stolen. Seagate's Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive, with native 128-bit AES encryption, can also be purchased with Wave Systems Embassy Trust Suite management software from Wave Systems Corp., which will allow IT administrators to manage data encryption, keys and passwords at the enterprise level. "This is a standard ATA drive that's encrypting all the time. It acts like a regular drive, you wouldn't know the difference," said Lark Allen, executive vice president of corporate development at Wave Systems.
Probably not the end, but a good beginning, particularly for those with a fondness of leaving their laptop in the car while running an errand on the way home from the office. I've run across three different articles related to compromised data this weekend..(not all related to laptops).. this is a step in the right direction.
Touch wood, so far I have not had any problems but I have friends in the UK who have had more than one laptop stolen from a parked car.
Doesn't the new Vista also come with encryption.
PGP disk has also been recommended by some Mods here.
