> Windows has good FDE now.
Only for those running Ultimate or Enterprise edition. What's everyone else supposed to use?
Only for those running Ultimate or Enterprise edition. 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.
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.
Yes, because I know people who fit that exact profile. Just Friday I was talking to a person who had found TrueCrypt a few years ago and used it ever since, who wanted my help with what the dramatic website shutdown meant for them. "Just switch to Linux" certainly would not have gone over well.
The set of all people who (a) cannot afford Windows Ultimate (b) rely on Windows-only software and (c) want encryption is non-negligible.