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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:07 PM
Subject: data security
hi
one day this week, i started my computer, it behaved very strange - i had a
blank screen for about 2 minutes before i got the boot screen, then it
continued to boot from ... network
the reason was that the hard driv
On Wednesday, 4 בFebruary 2009, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Shachar Shemesh
> > Erez D wrote:
> >> 1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu etc...
> > Debian does. The installer even offers to install it for you.
> And so does Ubuntu.
And Fedora also of course ;-)
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This whole encryption thread reminded me of a recent xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/538/
:-)
--y
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Moish wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Orr Dunkelman wrote:
> >> The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not.
> >>
> >> In case it is not - you are proba
Meir Michanie wrote:
He asked about what to do with his broken harddisk.
- Original Message -
Subject: Re: data security
From: Erez D
To: "Meir Michanie"
CC: "linux-il"
Date: 04-02-2009 13:47
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Meir Michanie wrote:
What abo
He asked about what to do with his broken harddisk.
> - Original Message -
> Subject: Re: data security
> From: Erez D
> To: "Meir Michanie"
> CC: "linux-il"
> Date: 04-02-2009 13:47
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Meir Michanie w
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Orr Dunkelman wrote:
The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not.
In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the
hard disk.
If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow.
It is encrypted, but swap is hard
Orr Dunkelman wrote:
The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not.
In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the hard disk.
If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow.
It is encrypted, but swap is hardly used on my machine.
An
op is stolen ...
>
>
> > - Original Message -----
> > Subject: Re: data security
> > From: Shachar Shemesh
> > To: "Orr Dunkelman"
> > CC: "linux-il" ,"Erez D"
> > Date: 04-02-2009 13:02
> >
> >
> > Orr Dunkelman wrote:
>
What about /etc/shadow and other sensitive files? so no encrypting your
root filesystem is also an issue.
What if you put the hard drive under a very strong magnetic field?
> - Original Message -
> Subject: Re: data security
> From: Shachar Shemesh
> To: "Orr Dunkelm
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Also, keep in mind that some things are automatically generated but still
> sensitive. The most important examples are my bash history file (
> .bash_history under your home directory) and the database for the "locate"
> command (/var/cach
2009/2/4 Shachar Shemesh
> Erez D wrote:
>
>>
>> so i though of a solution - use a crypto FS.
>> but there are many problems with it.
>> the practical problems are at least:
>> 1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu etc... )
>> that fully support crypto-fs out of the bo
Orr Dunkelman wrote:
I guess that the configuration may still reveal some secrets (like
which hosts are important enough to be in /etc/hosts), but it's better
than nothing...
On my laptop, "most" of the data is not encrypted. I discovered that
compiling inside an encrypted partition is hor
2009/2/4 Erez D :
>
> when a hard drive dies and it is under warrenty, we need give the old one
> when we want it replaced.
> usuallyon the hard drive we have some personal things - pictures, documents,
> or confidential data if it belonged to a company etc...
> assuming the data is backed up (back
Erez D wrote:
so i though of a solution - use a crypto FS.
but there are many problems with it.
the practical problems are at least:
1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu
etc... ) that fully support crypto-fs out of the box, so if i use it,
i will need to do manual
hi
one day this week, i started my computer, it behaved very strange - i had a
blank screen for about 2 minutes before i got the boot screen, then it
continued to boot from ... network
the reason was that the hard drive has died. it wasn't even recognized by
the bios.
the computer was 2 months old
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