Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
The commercials between the movie and news show on the airline include an IBM spot on their new Key Recovery software. Sigh.
The explanations they gave were mixed; one person was talking about making sure that if you lose the key that people with a legitimate need to access the material can do it. The other example they gave, with pictures, was along the lines of "Suppose you're going on vacation and you want to leave a key with a neighbor to feed the dog. A safe way to do it would be to put your house key in a lockbox that needs several keys to open it, and give those keys to people you trust." Yeah, right - cops can get in, but Dog's gonna get pretty hungry....
I've been playing around with marina's new ibm thinkpad (real cool machine) and it allows one to password-protect the hard disk. The docs claim that if you forget the password, no one will be able to unlock it for you. Sure... Now why isn't that export-controlled? :-) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps