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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