On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are you sure you want to encrypt your *whole* drive though?
Yes. (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week) > Is your > data really that secret? Why is that important? AKA "it's my laptop, and I will explicitly choose to disclose it's contents." (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week) > For most people there are only a few /really > secret/ things, and you can just make a small secure partition and > place them in there. except for when you forget to encrypt something, or when a process unexpectedly leaves plaintext laying about (editor temp files, core dumps, i-meant-to-download-that-someplace-else, ...), or when you forget your laptop in an airport or a taxi or leave the door to your office unlocked... > Encryption does take a performance hit. Worthy trade-off. CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?