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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 March 2003 6:31 pm, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 6:30 pm, Kai Hendry wrote: > > I can get access into almost any "linux" partitioned hard drive in my > > hands too. I think you have a grave mis-understanding of SID/UID. > > encryption + loopback! > A few months ago the hard disk on my office machine died. It was replaced by contract engineers who insisted that they had to return with the dead disk. This concerned me a little as I keep some information on the disk (name + address lists) which should not get into other hands. My preference would have been to reformat the disk with a lump hammer. How could I be sure that the disk would be scrapped and not end up in a computer shop's bargain bin should it show any signs of life? Having bought one or two bargain bin hard disks I know how interesting they can be! On reinstaling I set up an encrypted partition for any sensitive data. With SuSE this is about as difficult as falling off a log, the options to do this are all available in the install process. By default the machine asks for your passphrase every time it boots, but I turned this off, preferring to mount the encrypted partition whenever I actually need it by running as root "/etc/rc.d/boot.crypto start" and entering my passphrase As with any security system there is nothing absolute about it. My intention is to secure the data from the casually curious, not government spooks. AFAIK it does. Tony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZHey+ZJrkBuz/nkRAmx9AJ9QEL//p/XYFgW9qFcN+qRa/MTJOwCfZkRb TnCYPurjg44TErriRSe+JnU= =3B8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.