On Die, 20 Nov 2001, Rolf Kutz wrote: > Florian Bantner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > A fact about which I'm concerned > > even more than about a hack from outside via the internet etc. is > > real physical access to the box. Something hackers normaly don't pay > > enough attention is that just somebody steps - let's say 6 o'clock > > in the morning - into your room, shows you his police card - or what ever > > govermental id card - and tells you that your computer is now his. > > Use TMPFS. Encrypt your disk or do everything in > RAM (maybe set up a diskless system booting from > cd. See the bootcd-package). They might still be > bugging your hardware.
I don't know tmpfs. What I'm currently thinging about is: * Create for every user a directory under his home. * Use some kind of ram-disk device. * Perhaps (just to be sure) encrypt it. Perhaps that's where I need some kind of encrypting filesystem (do I?). I'm not experienced in fs encryption. How do I mount such devices. Which encryption is used? When to enter passphrase? > > > You have to experience that for yourself to believe how easy this > > could happen. Just be in the wrong place to the wrong time. > > It happend to me once, just because I lived that time in a > > flat-sharing community. I didn't see my computers for about a year > > and then all harddisk had been removed and where broken. > > Did they replace the damage? > > - Rolf No. To be honest: After one year I had a new box and everything running. In my old one I found the harddisks disconnected and having read-errors (that time 2 1GB drives). To do something whould include contacting a Laywer and doing much stressful stuff, I didn't want to bother with. -- -------------------------------------------- Florian Bantner AXON-E Interaktive Medien Tel. +49 - 941 - 599 854 4 Fax. +49 - 941 - 599 854 1 Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key http://www.axon-e.de/gpg/f.bantner.key --------------------------------------------
