On 8/11/06, Christopher L. Morrow <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
It's also a great time to plant some file that POOF the authorities will decrypt & show it's kiddie porn. {Or just hide same in your browser cache.} Do YOU know what every frigging file on your machine is?
and here I was thinking: "Quick! buy stock in whole disk encryption software makers!"
Any laptop NOT using full disk encryption from the moment of boot-up is begging for trouble. As has been pointed out many times, laptops DO get lost, and not just in airline facilities. This can be accomplished with just about any OS. Some require loading an OS kernel first with a custom ramdisk or mini-partition to kick off the encrypted disk driver; others can use off the shelf products designed expressly for this purpose. The only thing that bugs most people about full disk encryption is that it often doesn't support "hibernation" -- but if the hardware has a standby power save mode that is low enough on power consumption (S3 or similar), that shouldn't be a problem. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>