@sphynx:
I'm sure it was TAILS. I have Trisquel in my desktop too and i had to use
cryptsetup to encrypt it. As far as I know, TAILS is the only distro that
has(?) swap encrypted by default.
TAILS has an interesting feature that safely erases all RAM when shutting
down the PC... I've tried TAILS liveCD in my laptop with 4 GB of RAM and it
only took about 6 seconds to erase RAM and power off. Maybe that could be
shipped with all distros by default, or, at least, have an option to turn it
on/off?? I don't know how "secure" is RAM secure deletion, but I think it
wouldn't hurt and it's an added security bonus.
Yes... I do know that RAM is vanished after a few minutes(?) after the PC has
been shut down, depending on how hot the boards are, but..... just in case
you have a full geared high-tech SWAT team at your door just because you've
(mistakingly, of course! Maybe you thought it was already in the public
domain - without copyright) downloaded the latest blockbuster movie from some
torrent site.... you know.
Maybe that was a lame example... I don't endorse that anyway (doesn't mean
I've never done it), but I think that it is the same thing as with
proprietary software - the best thing is to drop it altogether. Hollywood
just feeds us crap anyway!
