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?

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