Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1213 mails)

[Ricardo Chung <ricardo.a.chung@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 01:50:29 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-04-11 13:09, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > it denies the thief the posibility of running your machine.
> >
> > It also denies the possibility of removing the hard drive, inserting it
> > in another computer, installing a rootkit on it, and then replacing it.
>
> The kernel can be replaced, because /boot has to be non-encrypted, I
> understand.

As you mentioned that is one of the multiple reasons to encrypt a Hard Disc 
Drive and/or Partitions. If you feel even full paranoid (and reasons exists to 
be) you will need to add an extra folder/files encryption for the most 
valuable data inside of. Once upon you are connected to Internet your HDD 
encryption is not longer working and you will need an extra encryption level 
to keep those sniffer snoopies away. Fortunately, we have good tools available 
to perform that job.

Regards,


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Ricardo Chung | Panama
Linux Ambassador
openSUSE Projects
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