Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Jeroen de Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many thieves would be comfortable with using Linux and > network manager to connect to a network? I don't use NetworkManager. The fact that it doesn't bring up networks till someone logs in is too stupid for words. (For one, my preferred login wh

Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-28 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > Nah, hideously painful, slow acting, poison gas. what? you want to be merciful to someone who steels your laptop? - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'

Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-28 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 14:25 +, g wrote: > i still think best way is a 'mission impossible' self > destruct with a c4 charge. ;-) Nah, hideously painful, slow acting, poison gas. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is i

Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-28 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Thanks for the tip on adeona. I'll look at it to see what other > tricks I could be using to make tracking easier. it is an interesting and effective way of doing things. yet like any and all possible ways, it does dep

Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeroen de Haas
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 11:06 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Short answer: It'll make it very hard for people with physical access to > > boot your computer and read personal files (possibly containing > > passwords or other sensitive information). > > True, but that will also make it hard

Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > are you using http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html ? > or do you have another 'call home' site? I'm using my own desktop system to log the IP and using a periodic wget(1) call from the init scripts, cron, and dhclient to access a non-linked web page on my mac

Re: thefts and encrypted FS (Re: what dose this do)

2008-09-27 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > True, but that will also make it hard for the laptop to call home for > help if it gets stolen. Just something to think about. are you using http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html ? or do you have another 'call hom