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wyager12y ago· 2 in thread

> What's everyone else supposed to use?

At the risk of sounding snarky, Linux?

If you're not using Ultimate or Enterprise, you're probably not a business, so you probably don't have any business-critical applications that need to be run in Windows, so you can probably just use Linux for anything that needs to be kept encrypted.

sirsarOP12y ago

Switching to Linux is a conceptual and time-consuming burden that the average consumer will not deal with. Widespread adoption of encryption can only be achieved by making it as simple as possible.

wyager12y ago

Do you think anyone who is ready and willing to use encryption on Windows is incapable of switching to linux?

FWIW, a non-negligible percentage of my not-computer-savvy friends have switched to Linux over the last few years because they mostly just need an internet machine after all, and were tired of dealing with windows. Most of them seem to have no trouble after they figure out how to boot a liveUSB.

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w0rm12y ago

Well if encryption is that important you either buy a version of Windows which has FDE or you buy some other proprietary software which can do FDE. You can just keep using TrueCrypt until you need to upgrade Windows and get BitLocker supported edition.

Ergomane12y ago

Windows 8 Pro comes with Bitlocker and is fairly cheap.

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