I very rarely get unexpected telephone calls, mainly because I’m very protective of my phone number. However this morning was an exception, “Did I know anything about Bitlocker?”
I was tempted to answer “More than enough to know I wouldn’t be using it” but I figured that both had the potential to strike wide of the mark humour-wise and probably the hole was already dug so advising against spade-work even in jest was redundant at this point.
Instead I replied that I did and that it was a full-disk encryption tool shipped with Windows 7, Vista and Server 2K8. Apparently on the strength of this I might be getting a call from someone who was having problems with said technology.
I stared at the phone for a little while partly hoping it might ring because I was now intrigued as to what the problem was, but also partly hoping it wouldn’t because I was already having one of ‘those days’ and adding another problem especially if it was a particularly thorny one I could do without.
Anyhow after an hour it seemed that the whole question became academic because clearly I wasn’t going to get that phone call. I wonder what the problem was...