Tracy R Reed wrote: > > I am beginning to think that every laptop should have an encrypted > filesystem. If the laptop gets stolen it's no big deal. You only lose > the hardware and not your data to identity thieves (which you have > safely backed up at home, right?). If this were common practice it would > end all of these stories about peoples SSN's and secret government data > being lost with laptops.
All encrypton does is slow the bad guys down, it does not stop them. The law, however, says you do not have to *report* the loss of encrypted and stolen personal identifying information. If it were _my_ laptop that was stolen, encrypted or not, I would alert the credit reporting companies, and I would change thngs like bank account numbers and credit card numbers, etc. I would simply have a bt of time to do it, and not have to worry about it instantly, that's all. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
