Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:55:04
Message-Id: 20140602115452.55741f86@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:06:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > If you encrypt your home directory then you unlock it when you log in so
4 > logging out of your DE safely locks things again.
5 >
6 > You most likely want the second option, the odds that you have a valid
7 > need to protect /usr and /opt are not good. As a regular user out there,
8 > the stuff you want to protect is in /home (or you could easily move it
9 > to /home).
10
11 With one notable exception. There is sometimes sensitive information
12 in /etc, like wireless passwords.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it
19 permanent

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