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Use Windows Vista’s BitLocker to lock down your computer

by Doug Berger on Jan 30, 2007 at 06:51 PM

Windows Vista BitLocker diagram

We’ve stumbled upon a neat little feature in Microsoft’s new Windows Vista called BitLocker.  The tool lets you encrypt everything on your hard drive and makes it so you can use a flash drive (AKA thumb drive) as the key to the safe.  So everytime you want to log on to your machine, you must have the flash drive in the USB port, or else you’ll get a screen telling you to insert it.  And unfortunately, we’re not seeing any backdoors yet. 

You can of course add multiple flash drives to the list, but the more you have, the less secure you really are.  If you’re going to load BitLocker, make sure you backup your recovery key *on a different machine or external storage device.* If you leave your key on the same machine, don’t lose your flash drive, or else you’re simply screwed.  We’ll tell you about more Vista features as we dig them up.

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  • Cheeseburger Cheeseburger said:

    You can store a recovery key in the event you lose your flash drive and add another flash drive as your key.

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