http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2236665/schneier-slams-bitarmor By Iain Thomson in San Francisco vnunet.com 17 Feb 2009 Security guru Bruce Schneier has called a money-back guarantee by encryption vendor BitArmor a ‘PR gimmick’. In January BitArmor announced a ‘No-Breach Guarantee’ on its DataControl data encryption package. If users purchased a three-year contract, platinum-level support, and maintained updates within 90 days of their release and still suffered a data breach then they could claim their money back from the company. However, an examination of the fine print also revealed that the user would have to publically acknowledge their data breach and the refund would only be on the package itself, and that payout would be pro-rated against the length of the contract. Schneier commented on the offer in his monthly Crypto-gram newsletter as he had been referenced by the company as a supporter of such an idea. However, he was less than pleased with this and issued a rebuttal. “Bottom line: PR gimmick, nothing more,” he wrote. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Feb 18 2009 - 00:25:17 PST
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