2009/4/26 Sam Halliday <sam.halli...@gmail.com>: > I'm still talking about theft of machines (particularly laptops) as that is > a major threat. One need only read the British newspapers to discover story > after story of articles where "sensitive information was on a laptop which > was stolen". As pointed out elsewhere, psql + encrypted drive is entirely > unpractical as no OS is setup to ask for an encrypted drive password on boot > (similarly for headless machines, user interaction is required). A practical > solution that accomplishes the same goals as the encrypted drive is > necessary. Buy a higher end thinkpad, it uses a BIOS password and an ASIC to encrypt the data in hardware, w/o impact on performance.
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