On 13 May 2010 07:24, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2010 01:10:44 John Stevenson wrote: > > If you have a laptop hard drive that often contains sensitve personal > data > > or is used for any kind of business or holds information that needs to be > > covered under the data protection act, then it advisable to have the > whole > > system encrypted in case it falls into the wrong hands. > > Encrypting home dir + swap, and using a /tmp ram disk, is sufficient even > for > data protection act requirements. Everything written outside those three > areas > are operating system files only. > > How to convert existing homes to crypto, plus swap and tmp: > > > http://www.tolaris.com/2009/11/14/securing-laptops-with-ecryptfs-cryptsetup- > and-tmpfs/<http://www.tolaris.com/2009/11/14/securing-laptops-with-ecryptfs-cryptsetup-%0Aand-tmpfs/> > > Tyler >
You would want to consider /var if you have local business applications running on the laptop. -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com
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