[SATLUG] laptop encryption

[Hector Bojorquez]

I have no suggestions.. but this raises a concern I've had..
I've noticed that everyone here quite freely discloses a LOT of information
about systems that they work on.
And.. as we all know the SATLUG mail archives are searchable.

It struck me as I was reading this post, which does not disclose any
partidularly sensitive information,
that "archive-diving" could be as informative as "dumpster-diving"
for any cracker or black hat out there.

Just a thought.



On Dec 29, 2007 8:56 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > They agreed, and made an exemption for laptops intended to be run with
> > Linux. However, now they want me to suggest an equivalent product for
> > Linux. I am curious to know if someone has experience with an OPEN
> SOURCE
> > encryption solution that one could recommend here. I much rather
> recommend
> > something open and free, than some proprietary solution where I can't
> even
> > inspect the source to make sure it actually is safe.
>
> Do they require FDE (full disk encryption)?  I have unfortunately been
> unable to find any software products that do FDE on Linux laptop hard
> drives.  You might try a hardware-based solution such as Seagate's
> momentus drive:
>
>
> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/momentus/momentus_5400_fde.2/
>
> Perhaps you can find a vendor that will include this drive in the
> sales quote for your laptop.
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