..on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:55:19AM +0000, Andreas Bader wrote: > > Hi all - at the risk of shilling, my company has released an Open > > Source tool called "You'll Never Take Me Alive". If your encrypted > > laptop has its screen locked, and is plugged into power or ethernet, > > the tool will hibernate your laptop if either of those plugs are > > removed. So if you run out for lunch, or leave it unattended (but > > plugged in) at starbucks, and someone grabs your laptop and runs, > > it'll hibernate to try to thwart memory attacks to retrieve the disk > > encryption key. Not foolproof, but something simple and easy. > > > > It the moment it only supports Bitlocker, but support for Truecrypt is > > coming[0]. If you have suggestions - add them to the github issues > > page. > > > > https://isecpartners.com/news-events/news/2013/march/yontma.aspx > > https://github.com/iSECPartners/yontma > > > > -tom > > Great Idea, solves a huge problem with the hack of SEDs. > But Windows itself is a big security hole, why don't you offer this for > Linux? When I encrypt my Laptop with Bitlocker and Yontma, then I have a > half Open Source secured Laptop..
For your Linux laptop why not just use an encrypted file-system and lid-switch? Close the lid and the machine hibernates. If you forget to close the lid then time it out to a screen lock. Can be done in a few lines of shell script with xtrlock and a /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state trigger. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
