Business Suckage

I wonder what shape our economy would be in if fewer companies were run by idiots. Let me back up a bit. I have a laptop with my life's work on it and no shortage of personal information and consequently I employ a whole-disk-encryption solution.

The PGP web site is horrific, and it's the least of the offenders. The business itself works like this: they release this new whole-disk-encryption product for OS X 10.5 that arrives a few months prior to the release of 10.6 and they don't bother to have an update available at that point; and they still don't; and they probably won't until several months prior to the release of 10.7.

CheckPoint is insane. I've several times tried to give them my money, but I've never been able to actually figure out how to do that. Their web site is designed to thwart all such efforts. They too have a whole-disk-encryption product for the Mac but lately I've lacked the ambition to figure out how to give them my money because I don't want to encourage them to continue to suck.

Just now I found this product, SecureDoc, by WinMagic. Obviously the notion of using an invasive program on my Mac by a company with "Win" and "Magic" in its name warrants some quiet reflection. Their website lacks any substantial information on SecureDoc (10.6 support? the price? anything?) and the best part is their contact-our-sales-dept form, which refused to accept my gmail address (which I use for everything) because, "we need a valid corporate email address." Are they _really_ that desperate not have to deal with more customers?