[SATLUG] laptop encryption

[Hector Bojorquez]

If I was a San Antonio "black hat", I'd spend a lot of time going through
our archives.
Most, if not all, of San Antonio's high-tech brain power is concentrated
here.
I can see someone making a db of people's preferences, coding-habits, system
admin habits...etc.
Face it we all have opined quite stridently about many preferences and
habits...
On Dec 29, 2007 2:46 PM, John Chalinder <argiod at bresnan.net> wrote:

> Archive-diving... an interesting term and concept. An excellent point
> made.
> Indeed, we need to be aware of the open nature of any forum or mailing
> list.
> Personally, I do not save any sensitive information on my laptop's drive.
> Rather, I have external storage devices for that, which are never
> connected
> while I'm online. I first d/l to my flash drive. Then I disconnect from
> the
> web and transfer the information to the external device and wipe the flash
> drive. It can be tedious at times, but it is preferable to 'sharing'
> sensitive
> data with strangers... which can get much more intrusively tedious.
>
>
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:17:35 -0600
>  "Hector Bojorquez" <hector.bojorquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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