[Cialug] OT: Macbook for sale

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Wed Dec 16 09:25:46 CST 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:

> For the truly paranoid you are supposed to use TrueCrypt, or something like
> it, and double-encrypt your hard drive.  An outside layer that is the one
> you reveal at gunpoint, - has a working OS and some legitimate looking
> files,  and the inside-super-secret layer that nobody knows about except
> you.
>
> Too bad this is only supported (by TrueCrypt) under Windows and not Linux
> or MacOS.  What software alternatives are available for those platforms?
>
>
Well, if I had such sensitive and critical data that I needed to hide my
operating system then it would probably be worthwhile tradeoff.

Considering that truecrypt works on Linux and Mac OS and that Linux has a
lot of encryption options available to it, and the filesystem is opensource
as well as the bootloader and the rest of the OS, I'm surprised that it
isn't a supported operating system for this.

Maybe it changes too fast.

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