{"id":11185,"date":"2011-04-20T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:55:17","slug":"bitlocker-my-personal-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11185","title":{"rendered":"BitLocker &#038; My Personal Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My personal laptop contains some stuff that I don\u2019t want to lose control of, including the original Word documents for a few books.&#160; As such,I take precautions to protect that content.<\/p>\n<p>My laptop runs Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.&#160; That includes a feature called BitLocker which can encrypt an entire disk.&#160; With a TPM 1.2 chip enabled in the BIOS, I enabled that, saving the recovery key to a USB stick.&#160; I want to keep that key safe \u2013 just in case.&#160; So I moved it from the USB stick to a folder on my laptop.&#160; That folder is replicated to my other machines using Live Mesh.&#160; That means I can access the recovery key for the laptop from anywhere using my Live ID.<\/p>\n<p>My data is secure, and I can recover the laptop if something should go awry.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f58852f6-a372-40a8-8cbe-44289df26b88\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My personal laptop contains some stuff that I don\u2019t want to lose control of, including the original Word documents for a few books.&#160; As such,I take precautions to protect that content. My laptop runs Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.&#160; That includes a feature called BitLocker which can encrypt an entire disk.&#160; With a TPM 1.2 chip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BitLocker &#038; My Personal Laptop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[190,108],"class_list":["post-11185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-security","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}