empirical.
Well, ...
On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:44 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Mail Lists wrote:
On 01/04/2009 11:24 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
By the way if your root partition was not encrypted then someone
with
physical access to your machine could boot into single user mode
and get
root access - hence encrypting the root partition is probably the
only way
to avoid that - unless someone knows a different way in?
Just boot a CD, DVD or USB key I own the whole laptop - as a bad
guy i
would prefer to boot my own OS anyway not yours.
I disagree with this. I know from experimenting that if I boot another
Linux OS (regardless of media used) and then try to access the data on
separate a LUKS encrypted device, I can't see that data without
providing the passphrase.
Be careful to distinguish between "can't see the unencrypted data"
and "can't see the encrypted data".
As a matter of fact you are prompted to supply
the passphrase.
Remember, that's with the standard tools, of course.
If you boot a Microsoft Windows OS you can't see the
data anyhow...Microsoft Windows doesn't recognize non-Microsoft
filesystems such as ext3.
Again, that's with the standard tools.
How much you have to worry about things like that depends a lot on
what you have on your storage device, of course. Well, I should say,
it depends on what your opponent thinks you have on the device.
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