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 when

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

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 for

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

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

2008-09-28 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: snip 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

what dose this do

2008-09-27 Thread William Biggs
when I installed fedora 9 I seen I can encryption system what dose that do ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: what dose this do

2008-09-27 Thread Jeroen de Haas
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 10:03 -0400, William Biggs wrote: when I installed fedora 9 I seen I can encryption system what dose that do ? 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

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

2008-09-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
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 for the laptop to call home for help if it gets stolen. Just something to

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