Had the opportunity to test out Windows 8's "whole-hard-drive" encryption the other day and was impressed:
. cheap upgrade (USD40, compared to Win 7 Ultimate's USD140+), and Win 8 Pro (which has BitLocker) is automatically selected (until 31 Jan 2013) . upgrade seems to function fine even on top of pirated Windows (Win 7's didn't always) . no longer requires TPM (compared to Win 7's, which for all practical purposes did) . allows user to back up private key online to "Microsoft account" (analogous to that offered by the FileVault2 in Mac OS 10.7+) Would be interested in hearing others' experience. (Yes, it's proprietary, therefore theoretically inferior to e.g. TrueCrypt.) Inconvenience: upgrade is transparent only from Win 7; from XP or Vista, installed programs aren't preserved. Best, Eric PGP <http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2>
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