Well, maybe not that friendly. Ridiculously long passphrases won't help
here. Beware of housekeepers bearing [hidden] gifts:
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/10/evil-maid-goes-after-truecrypt.html
Having pointed that out, I do recommend and use Truecrypt extensively
myself (not with whole-disk encryption however) and, I suppose, this is
simply one of those social engineering warnings.
--
Peter van Houten
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Richard Stovall<[email protected]> wrote:
Probable? Possible, absolutely. I've gone all over the place with a
laptop and haven't ever had issue one at home or abroad. That said,
Truecrypt is your friend. Encrypt the whole volume with a
ridiculously long passphrase and be done with it. Who cares if they
copy it at that point.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Kurt Buff<[email protected]> wrote:
I know you said there isn't any, but are you really truly *SURE* there
isn't any patient or other confidential data on this machine? I would
include hashes of domain credentials in that category.
If there is, be aware that all computers are subject to search and
probable copying of data at the border.
Other than that, I don't see any real issues.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 13:21, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have a physician who wants to take a company owned Tablet PC to
Argentina
in a month or so. This doesn�t give me a warm fuzzy, but I don�t have
anything concrete to give as a reason to tell him no, aside from that. I
have a hard enough time with docs wanting to take the Tablets out of the
office to their homes�
Do any of you have any good information on reasons that I can give that
it
wouldn�t be a good idea? There should not be any data on the system, as
he
will be using Xen to get access to all of our systems using domain
credentials, so data theft is not a big concern in this particular case.
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians& Associates, PA
[email protected]
www.eaglemds.com
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