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A group of Princeton researchers have found attacks rendering many popular whole-disk encryption mechanisms useless.  It’s pretty interesting stuff although one has to question the methodology of removing a stick of ram from a computer.  What was “more nifty” was the attack shown in the later half of the video that required nothing more than a thumb drive or the like to grab the BitLocker key on a Vista machine (they said similar methods could break the others as well).  I suppose the moral of this story is keep tabs on your laptop, even if you do use something like FileVault or BitLocker.  Really though, it’s not like your average laptop thief is going to have sophisticated software like the stuff demonstrated in the video.