Bind ubuntu to hard drive.

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Mon Mar 26 01:31:26 UTC 2007


Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> The daemons themselves and Linux being multi-user from the ground up
> pretty much give you all the protection you're likely to need, and if
> an attacker has gained physical access to the machine while running,
> even with encryption, none of it matters anyway.

I believe his primary concern is physical theft of the disk (or a
backup) while the machine is *not* running.  Encrypting the entire disk
would resolve that.

Matthew Flaschen




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