[account42]

> When PCs boot, they consider barcode scanners no differently to keyboards.

This is actually usually a mode of the barcode scanner that can be configured by ... scanning a special barcode.

> That response could not, however, involve distributing BitLocker keys – doing so was just too risky to contemplate.

So instead they distributed the BitLocker keys but wrapped in a barcode?

I mean using a barcode scanner as ad-hoc keyboard input automation is nice but this theatrical approach to computer security is not encouraging.

[odo1242]

No - instead of giving every person in the company BitLocker keys, they had to do all the fixing within IT, hence, automation via barcode scanning.