UUIDs on drives

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Aug 15 23:45:58 UTC 2008


Leo Cacciari wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 15/08/2008 alle 16.46 -0600, Karl Larsen ha scritto:
>   
>>  
>>     You may well be right. I really have no knowledge of an encrypted 
>> partition. Why would you even want one? As we have said before if you 
>> use a NSA approved good password your computer is safe. I use such on my 
>> computer and love Linux because it uses passwords. Windows is a joke.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>     
> Well, as someone already pinted out, good passwords protects (if they
> do) against unhaothorized access using the system. They can not prevent
> physical access (as in remving your hard drive, then installing it on
> another computer and mounting your partitions in a way they can be
> read). If your partition is not encrypted, you are done.
>
> Of course, the decision upon using an encrypted filesystem will depends
> on how like you find this kind of events, and how you think it will
> affect you if it does.
>
> Enjoy
>
>   
    A person who wants my Hard Drive has to take it from me holding and 
AR-15 Automatic Weapon. If they succeed they have every right to my data 
:-)
I will be dead and not care.


Karl


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