geeman@best.com writes:

EFS is being deployed because They realized that with NTFS-readers available for other OSes besides NT there was no longer even the illusion of security offered by the NT architecture.

This is all true. However, the manner in which you state it sounds very much like a deliberate attempt to trash Microsoft and NT. The fact is that the identical arguments could be made toward any of the standard Unix-like and all other popular operating systems. Linux, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, et al.--even where the vendors have a `trusted' version--are all susceptible to the same attacks. Hence, by your reasoning, one would have to say that the architectures of every one of these operating systems do not offer `even the illusion of security'. - Frondeur