On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:04 -0500 Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote:
> USB thumb drives are inherently insecure without encryption. It does They're also inherently insecure with full disk encryption. Once mounted, anyone who has access to the system has access to the files on the device. > But, with a Linux file system, then the drive is as secure as a local > drive (Linux permissions). Which is the same as "not really secure at all". Thus the rhetorical question about how ext2 with modes 666 and 777 is at all different from FAT. To wit: it isn't different at all. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss