I just read an interesting article in which laptop computers belonging to the Mitt Romney campaign were stolen over he weekend. But what was more interesting is what the campaign spokesman had to say:

Romney’s campaign staff says encryption makes the stolen laptops good for little more than parts.

Burglars broke into Mitt Romney’s Boston presidential campaign headquarters over the weekend, making off with multiple laptops and a television. Alex Burgos, a spokesman for the campaign, told eWEEK that the burglary happened sometime during the evening of Sept. 9. The forced entry into the building, a harbor side location on Commercial Street in Boston’s North End neighborhood, appeared to be a “routine” burglary, he said, given that neither hard nor electronic copies of files were touched.

At any rate, the computer systems are password-enabled and the hard drives are encrypted, Burgos said.

“The only thing they’re good for is parts,” campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom told the Associated Press.

No offense there Eric but any good tech. worth his salt shouldn’t have to much trouble cracking a password enabled PC no matter what type of system you are using.

Gee. I wonder if they are using Bit-Locker?
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