Hello There,
I encrypt data using encfs on my portable harddisc. everytime I want to mount
it I got to provide it with a password. The level of encryption can be set from
normal to paraniod... etc I notice many people just leave or forget their
harddisc in the office. They use plain fat filesystem, and some of those discs
contain private and personal info... well if you can live without the
encryption and you dont care if others can read your data you dont need the
overhead of an encrypted filesystem. Personally I preffer to encrypt data on my
portable harddisc (or part of it). I just dont like the idea that if I forget
my disc in the office people can sniff around in my porno woops :-) ahumm, -
stuff. And believe me people really have tendency to plugin in a disc to
quickly check whats stored on it ;-)
There are many nice programs outthere that can do it for you from very easy to
very complex... its up to you to search and find the one that suits you. I like
encfs as for me its a really good solution. But as I said there are many
solutions out there...
Greetings,
Jelle
Philip Serracino Inglott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The point is ... If
I were murdered I'm not sure I would mind Inspector LINLEY accessing my files!
In other words who and what are you protecting your data against? Remember the
safest place for your data is encased in 2ft of reinforced concrete at the
bottom of the ocean ... no one can get to that data ... not even yourself.
Probably its not too hard to encrypt your partition in a way that you need to
manually enter your password every time you mount that drive ... probably the
best set-up is to have a usb key with the keys on it, but if you loose your
keys you loose your data too ... and you should use an external drive and carry
your incriminating data with you when you leave home ... but if someone else
but me is booting my pc with a boot disk, my worries would be more focused on
the security of my front door lock, and you shouldn't be going around loosing
laptops even if they have become a bit cheaper these days.
Whenever I hear about stupid invocations of IT on telly I get this knee jerk
reaction to be stupid. I mean who can forget Jurassic Parks' Crays ... which
were actually switched off because they made too much noise during filming?
Philio
James Attard wrote: nah...
inspector lyndsey or how the heck is he/she called, doesn't know abt LUKS :)
even the forensics will have a hardtime accessing it...
James
On 9/14/07, Graham Petley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,
I watched the Inspector Lyndsey mystery last night. At one point the sleuths
were in front of a Windows PC needing to login and view the owner's photo
collection. Luckily Inspector Lyndsey could guess the login password,
otherwise
the police nerd would have had to take the PC down to the lab for a long
session with some special software.
I too keep my photo collection on the Windows partition of my laptop. It too
needs a password to gain access, which hopefully Inspector Lyndsey would not
be
able to guess. But if I boot it up with the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Live CD, I only
have to double click on the Windows volume shown under Computer and I gain
access without having to know any password.
In fact, any volume, NTFS, Ext3 or Reiserfs is accessible this way. Are our
systems really so insecure, or is something wrong with my setup? Looks like
Inspector Lyndsey should never leave his Linux Live CD at home when he goes out
sleuthing!
-Graham Petley
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