Life on the bleeding edge

[Sy Ali]

On 10/2/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 01:20:27PM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
> >    I did not set up a /home partition on my laptop.  If someone steals it, I want to maximize the difficulties of getting it to do anything, much less provide access to all my files.  With a little luck, the Red Hat sticker will get the point across, ahead of time.
> >
> >    If the thief can get into the BIOS and make it boot from install media, they are going to have to blow away my root partition, and any personal information I chose to leave on it.
>
> Did you encrypt the filesystem?  If not, then they have no need to blow
> away the root partition.  Heck they could just take the disk out, plug
> it into a PC with a 2.5 to 3.5" adapter cable and mount the filesystem
> and grab your files.  Same for windows.  If it's not encrypted, it is
> free for the taking.
>
> Having a seperate partition for /home would actually make it easier to
> run an encrypted filesystem for your personal files, which on a laptop
> might be a good idea.

I've been using EncFS on /home for some time now, and it's been
wonderful to work with.
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