>
> I recently purchased my laptop and the issue of securing your data on the
> laptop came to my mind.
>
> I thought up of a few measures to make accessing the data on my laptop more
> difficult if it was stolen (which i hope will not happen). However, I am
> quite sure that there are holes which i did not consider and I just thought of
> throwing this issue out for anybody who might have comments.
>
> 1. I set the boot sequence to the harddisk then the floppy and cd-rom
> 2. I password protected the bios setup so that changes to the boot sequence
> requires a calid password.
> 3. I set the lilo to be password protected so that linux single will not work
> wthout a valid password.
Good first steps. Keep in mind that if someone really wants your data, they'll
get it. I could step around these measures by a) removing the hard drive, and
connecting it to another machine or b) removing the laptops battery, and the
CMOS battery to clear CMOS settings.
If your data is truly confidential and important, consider using strong
encryption. You can use encryption either on a file-by-file basis, or by using
an encrypted filesystem (there's been some talk on linux-kernel about this
recently).
Moral of the story - if someone wants the data on your hard drive badly enough,
they will find a way to get it. Just make sure it doesn't do them any good.
>
> Anyone has any comments on how someone who steal my laptop can access the data
> inside after I have done the three measures?
> (I am an ignorant idiot so if i did something really foolish just gently tell
> me)
>
> Anyway just thought this might be an interesting issue that many experienced
> users might have good suggestions.
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