On 02 Sep 2013, at 15:02 , li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > > > Am 02.09.2013 22:55, schrieb LuKreme: >> On 02 Sep 2013, at 07:10 , Littlefield, Tyler <ty...@tysdomain.com> wrote: >>> Second, you'll need to encrypt your harddrive, which I doubt this whole >>> blog covers. >> >> Encrypting your hard drive is trivial, at least in OS X and, I hear, even in >> Windows. > > and after that?
I was making no point about the securing of mail, just about encrypting the hard drive. > it does help you *nothing* in reality Um... no, that's not right. Encrypting drives is quite useful. > it does help you only if someone takes oyur hardware and is running > in *any* other case the encrypted disk is unlocked and any intrusion > has the same success as for an unencrypted devive No, when I have my laptop the drive is encrypted until one of the users authorized to unencrypted the drive logs in, or enters their password to wake the machine from sleep. > so why do people insist claim encrypted drives gain any security if > they are not talking about notebooks stolen in a cafe? For servers? Encrypting the drive on a always-on server seems a bit pointless. Once the machine is up and running, the drive is, as you said, unencrypted. However, if someone comes in to seize the machines, they will have to power them off and then the contents of the drives are protected. -- "I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course." - Baldrick - Sense and Senility
