On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 11:06 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Short answer: It'll make it very hard for people with physical access to > > boot your computer and read personal files (possibly containing > > passwords or other sensitive information). > > True, but that will also make it hard for the laptop to call home for > help if it gets stolen. Just something to think about. > > After fretting about this for a while, I decided it was more important > for the laptop to boot than for it to have everything encrypted. I > want my laptop to boot and contact my server so that I can see which > IP address it has popped up at. I'm sure the detectives at my local > police station would be interested too. They don't often get to catch > thieves red-handed like that. Most thefts around here go unsolved. > > I was too disorganized when I installed F9 to break /home out into a > separate filesystem. If I had done that I could have encrypted /home > yet left the root FS intact. Come to think of it, I do have > everything under LVM, so I suppose I could still break out /home and > encrypt the user stuff. > > -wolfgang > -- > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ (ipv6-only) > You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. > That is an interesting thought. I like the idea of letting my laptop contact my server. However, I wonder how it will work out in a real life situation. How many thieves would be comfortable with using Linux and network manager to connect to a network? Besides, they would still need to have a user account on the laptop. Eventually the thief could succeed, but I doubt whether he/she will go through all the trouble. I think it is wise to encrypt more than just your home partition. Swap-, /etc and /tmp partitions will probably contain some personal information as well. Jeroen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
