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, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Linux Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org