Re: Is Beagle a Good Thing?

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| From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Defence R&D Canada / R & D pour la défense Canada . Government of Canada

| One issue with all this pre-compiled database is it makes things easy for
| someone else to trace your actions.

Yeah.  Like the government :-) :-)

|  Maybe I am paranoid but I found that even
| "locate" can reveal to much information that I don't want easily found.

True.

| I want to start encrypting everything on the laptop and many files on the
| desktop.

In your business, it would seem like a given.  But perhaps not for
what you actually do.

Lack of encryption of exposed devices has recently gotten the UK
government in trouble.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm

The Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has also ordered that notebook
drives must be encrypted if they have "identifiable data" (what a
term!):  http://www.ipc.on.ca/index.asp?navid=55&fid1=607

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