On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:51:11AM -0700, Katy P wrote:
What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief?
You didn't mention your operating system, but in terms of least
pain I would go with http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads and
encrypt the whole drive. Make sure your
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(Apologies if I am making an assumption on people's knowledge)
Entropy in disk encryption is the random information collected by an
computers OS or encryption application for use in encrypting a hard disk.
Those with more knowledge in encryption:
I think remote wipe software is a scam. There is no way to know that
the system will ever be remotely accessible[1]; there is no way to know that
it will be booted into the operating system that was installed; there is
no way to know that the storage media will even be in the same system
when
Thanks!
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Would you like to give some more context on what it is you are trying to do?
remote wipe software for windows.
On 3 Apr 2013, at 18:08, Katy P wrote:
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If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I (or
someone else) could log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard
drive.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
ei8...@ei8fdb.orgwrote:
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:16:08AM -0700, Katy P wrote:
If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I (or
someone else) could log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard
drive.
Or you could use an encrypting filesystem, which requires a password
on boot, and
What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief?
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:16:08AM -0700, Katy P wrote:
If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I
(or
someone else)
Well, http://preyproject.com/ would be better for a layperson who doesn't
have the time/interest to encrypt. But it's not impossible to disable or
anything. And in the meantime the thief would have access to your data.
Depends on whether you are more looking to get it back (no guarantees), or
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote:
What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief?
Despite what it says in my signature, I'm no thief. That said, were I to
steal laptop, the first action I'd take is to remove the drive before
powering it
Griffin Boyce writes:
Well, http://preyproject.com/ would be better for a layperson who doesn't
have the time/interest to encrypt. But it's not impossible to disable or
anything. And in the meantime the thief would have access to your data.
Depends on whether you are more looking to get
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So the objective Kathy has mentioned is to:
log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive
It would seem the contents of the hard disk is more important than the actual
hardware.
In that case I would go for the encryption option. Yes
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote:
What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief?
Remote wipe schemes are easy for dumb thieves to circumvent because they
just have to not hook up the stolen hardware to the Internet to avoid them.
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