[Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
You may already know, I use disposable email addresses. So when some retail store asks me for my email at checkout, I just say their name @nedharvey.com, and later if I start receiving junk mail, I just look to see which address it was sent to, and I know who leaked my email address, and I filter

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Horne
On 1/3/2012 11:56 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: I just heard about a company selling a product to maintain power on seized computers while you transport them: http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php It came up in the context of moving servers from one power jack to another one due to data

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Dan O'Donovan
I just say their name @nedharvey.com, and later if I start receiving junk mail, I just look to see which address it was sent to, and I know who leaked my email address, and I filter that email address to the trash. Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 01/04/2012 09:22 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Two weeks ago, I signed up for box.net (also now box.com) using box...@nedharvey.com. I haven't given that email address out to anybody else, and I started receiving enlargement email on that address today. So... The only other reputable

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption and backups

2012-01-04 Thread Richard Pieri
On 1/3/2012 10:32 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Ummm...yeah. You do realize that in order to use your data you need to decrypt it, right? :-) Yeah, but that data remains local within hopefully protected memory areas. Bacukps usually run to external storage of some sort, be they flash drives or NAS

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 01/03/2012 08:50 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish (just check the box during installation) and maintain and on a multi-core desktop does not affect performance. An update from Fedora 13 to 16 did damage the boot record and make the disk

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

2012-01-04 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: Anyone buying this device would do well to have paid-up life insurance: the company is selling a UPS, but they're also selling cheater cords that allow their UPS to power a live outlet with a double-male connection cord, and that's

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 01/03/2012 11:46 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: gpg, virtualbox and /home encryption. only santa knows what i'm doing and he doesn't care. ...because you're permanently on the naughty list? :-P ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Dan O'Donovan wrote: Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable email address' with Google's gmail. ... your.account+boxnet@gmail.com I certainly wasn't aware of it. Looks like a nice trick; I tried it and it worked (I omitted the angle brackets, assuming you

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: Anyone buying this device would do well to have paid-up life insurance: the company is selling a UPS, but they're also selling cheater cords that allow their UPS

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

2012-01-04 Thread Jack Coats
Starts sounding like it might be best to get a system like off-the-grid folks have, where they run inverters full time from batteries, and charge the batteries from whatever is available (PV solar, generators, wind, tractor/generators, steam engine/generators, or even just charger from the grid,

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Gregory Boyce
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Theodore Ruegsegger grun...@gmail.com wrote: Dan O'Donovan wrote: Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable email address' with Google's gmail. ... your.account+boxnet@gmail.com I certainly wasn't aware of it. Looks like a

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 01/04/2012 04:23 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 01/03/2012 05:03 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Daniel Feenberg wrote: The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish... What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an integrated

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-04 Thread Richard Pieri
On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: Fedora allows you to do whole partition/volume encryption with the installer very easily. Fedora does so using dm-crypt/LUKS which can encrypt arbitrary block devices. Fedora provides the option to encrypt entire disks or individual

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2012-01-04 Thread stephen goldman
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Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 01/04/2012 04:23 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 01/03/2012 05:03 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Daniel Feenberg wrote: The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish... What tool do they use? Any

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Dan O'Donovan [mailto:odono...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu] Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable email address' with Google's gmail. If you have a valid gmail account, then you can also receive mail at your.account+boxnet@gmail.com provided the

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gillen It's possible that your email address was unintentionally leaked, although in the case of the bank, that is much scarier than the other explanation (that the bank