Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 June 2006 17:41, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> One could encrypt the file system. This seems a bit much.

I think this is the only real protection. Anything else can be worked around 
easily

> Encrypting the 
> files themselves is not feasible. There are a gazillion of them. (I
> counted.) Can you encrypt an existing file system? I suspect not.

Not presently, no

> One could have a BIOS password. This sounds best. But I guess these are
> easily gotten around? It sounds too simple a solution. Or one that leads
> to other odd problems.

Screwdriver->hard drive->computer without BIOS password

Modern hard drives have a built-in password protection, that forces you to 
enter it on boot regardless of which machine it's in. But I've never used it 
and have no idea how stable/reliable/secure it is


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