Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (85 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2007-05-18 at 18:00 +0200, Ralf Ronneburger wrote:

> For harddisk encryption on servers this is senseless. The disk is always
> online (therefore not protected) and before you sell it on ebay you can
> always use some tool to overwrite it with random data. For broken disks
> you'll find a strong magnet or even better a company that shreds them.
> To use encryption for this purpose is a waste of time and resources.

You forget that machines can be stolen, for hardware sale, not caring 
about the data they may contain. But the buyer may find that interesting 
data... thus encryption denies them access.

I have had spare servers stolen from secured premises (ie, with guards). 
We noticed when we went to plug them in.


Then I do data backups to DVD and I'm not interested in a third party 
stealing or just looking at them.


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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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