scary

[Dennis Ruzeski]

I don't use it for anything but personal financial data or sensitive
work data, but just for that it's absolutely worth it. I can keep my
data on my laptop encrypted (and it's not a login/password combo, it's a
passphrase that's at least 40 characters long).  If someone walks with
my laptop, I don't have to run around paranoid that someone will get
access to my funds or account data or proprietary corporate secrets.  I
can just get a new one and restore from my offsite secured tapes
confortable in the knowledge that  my data will never be seen.

--Dennis





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Cyber Source
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:49 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: scary
Importance: Low

That sounds like TOTAL M$/Windows like strategy, no offense. I would 
never do that to myself for fear I might forget my login stuff. If 
anyone can get that close to my data, like hands on, then they can do 
whatever, fdisk, rm -rf, dd, whatever. I don't like to play, "sucks to 
be you" stuff. Locked doors work fine for me. I could see if I was Fort 
Knox or something, then maybe but I would still have a backup somewhere 
that wasnt encrypted. Just my HO I suppose.

Dennis Ruzeski wrote:

>No- It's filesystem encryption through a loopback device.  Password is
>entered at mount time. If you forget your password, sucks to be you.
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>This is the best doc I've seen online that shows how to do it. 
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>http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO/Encryption-HOW
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>Cyber Source
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:04 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: scary
>Importance: Low
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>are we talking about acl's? So how would you see your data again? Let's

>say you forgot passwords or whatever you would have to know to see your

>data again.
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>Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
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>>Nope- All the data is encrypted.  
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>>--Dennis
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf
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>>Cyber Source
>>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:00 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: Re: scary
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>>so if you mount your data with another system, you cant see it?
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>>Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
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>>>I have that now on Linux- It's called an encrypted filesystem.
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>>>--Dennis
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>>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf
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>>>Cyber Source
>>>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:49 AM
>>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>>Subject: scary
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>>>cant wait to see how they hobbled this.....an excerpt from Yahoo News

>>>about Longhorn....
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>>>Longhorn will also have a feature designed to protect data on a PC.
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