Re: Microsoft shutters Windows private folders

["Ahmad Elkhatib" <ahmad.elkhatib () gmail com>]

> Private folders are protection from your admin, which a corporate machine
shouldnt have IMO.

What about the CEO's machine, do you think the admin should have access to
all the data on that machine ?

-ahmad

On 7/17/06, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/16/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
> >
> >  EFS encrypted folders have been around for 5+ years in XP.  Does anyone
> > understand this controversy with Private Folders which sound like the
> > samething?
> >
>
>
>  Nope.
>
> No difference except MS is taking the high road in this one. Privacy is
> different from protection. BitLocker is protection from theft, Private
> folders are protection from your admin, which a corporate machine shouldnt
> have IMO.
>
> MS is learning, but maybe they could include private folders in the home
> versions of vista.
>
> -JP
>
>
>
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