[Cialug] OT: Macbook for sale

[Dave Hala Jr]

How about encrypting your data and storing "in the cloud" or just
working online in cloud. Then you'd just be carrying a more or less
blank laptop.

:) Dave


On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:25 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> 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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