Re: [Hampshire] Securing a laptop against theft

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Brooks
Hi all, Thanks for all the information, certainly will go down the encryption route and look into prey as it looks very interesting. In terms of common sense security I certainly practice a healthy dose of paranoia but recently I've had to start traveling with my laptop more and hence the risk of

Re: [Hampshire] Securing a laptop against theft

2009-08-22 Thread alan c
Peter Brooks wrote: Hi all, After a friend has had his full spec macbook pro 15 stolen from his house, I'm considering beefing up my laptop security. My initial thoughts are to encrypt /home,/tmp and swapspace. But to ideally that when the computer is locked (gnome) then the volume is

Re: [Hampshire] Securing a laptop against theft

2009-08-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Peter, On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:04:33PM +0100, Peter Brooks wrote: After a friend has had his full spec macbook pro 15 stolen from his house, I'm considering beefing up my laptop security. My initial thoughts are to encrypt /home,/tmp and swapspace. But to ideally that when the computer

Re: [Hampshire] Securing a laptop against theft

2009-08-21 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:04:33 +0100, pe...@theneb.co.uk said: My initial thoughts are to encrypt /home,/tmp and swapspace. But to ideally that when the computer is locked (gnome) then the volume is re-encrypted until it's locked. I'm not really sure what you mean by the second sentence above,

Re: [Hampshire] Securing a laptop against theft

2009-08-21 Thread Berni Elbourn
Peter Brooks wrote: Hi all, After a friend has had his full spec macbook pro 15 stolen from his house, I'm considering beefing up my laptop security. My initial thoughts are to encrypt /home,/tmp and swapspace. But to ideally that when the computer is locked (gnome) then the volume is