On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:14:22PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I'll be setting up a new box for the house and I want to use OpenBSD for > it, both for its security and since it will be an older box it will run > better than with Debian. > > Roles: > > main firewall for dialup internet access. > fetchmail and sendmail to ISP smarthost > other simple stuff (have another box for insecure stuff like watching > videos, surfing the net with javascript and flash). > > > We've moved and now our main security threat is physical security. We > don't want the data on the computer (i.e. in the /home directories) to > be readable if someone steals the box.
if someone knowledgeable enough has physical access to the running box, you can't keep the data private.
