Peter Brooks wrote: > Hi all, > After a friend has had his full spec macbook pro 15" stolen from his > house, I'm considering beefing up my laptop security. > My initial thoughts are to encrypt /home,/tmp and swapspace. But to > ideally that when the computer is locked (gnome) then the volume is > re-encrypted until it's locked. > The other side of the security I suppose would be tracking the laptop > whilst stolen. > > Any thoughts? >
Not too sure about encrypting system areas...there will be a performance trade-off. Perhaps start by encrypting a specific directory with really important stuff. Also be prepared for encryption to fail in your backup and recovery plan. Try prey.... http://preyproject.com/ I put gdm into auto-login mode. This loads up an account called makemoneyfast after a few seconds. Its scattered with get rich quick stuff and bogus bank details to keep them interested and away from the real data. And within a minute or so an email comes with a pile of details including screen and camera shots of the thief sitting at the keyboard. And yes prey is Open Source....there must be a pun there somewhere ;-) Berni -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
