Sijun Kang wrote:

> Operating system paging can be turned off (or disabled in low
> level in the program - not sure about this part). Regarding
> hibernate - user needs to be know the consequence on data
> security. Basically the user needs to close the app before
> hibernation. It would be super if we can do that automatically.

It seems on my installations here that Windows-7 has sleep
enabled by default. Can others confirm?

I find it an odd contradiction that the user is supposed to know
enough to turn off paging-files (specifically not recommended by
Microsoft) and the dangers of sleeping computers ... but can't be
know that they can use EFS to protect their data.

I know that uneducated users will have problems securing their
computer properly, for a Firebird app or anything else, but
let's be a little consistent here. If they can't set-up and use
EFS they are not about to play with their page-file.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing