Wow, talk about overdue! Don’t get me wrong here, I think it is fantastic that we will finally see some data protection happening at the hardware level so that when some bonehead loses a laptop full of customer data, the world is not going to come to an end.

Here’s the rub though. The Trusted Drive Manager software is a Windows only concept. Again, if it works, then fantastic. But with growth being shown on other platforms, I would love to see something like this be made available for Linux as well; understanding that it would be closed source.

But looking to the bright side of things, I am hopeful that this will dawn a new era of common sense with regard to taking our critical data into the wilds of the general public, only to abruptly lose it. I remain confident that lost laptops will remain a common theme, however if technology like hardware encryption can create some sort of idiot-proof buffer protecting those who have no choice in their data being lost, then I for one will be grateful.

Tags: data loss, stupidity, trusted drive manager, laptop, notebook