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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
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 09:48:23
Message-Id: 538C485F.5070901@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:24:35 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >
4 >>> I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days.
5 >> why? if you are hacked, they just read what you are reading. Encryption
6 >> does not help you there at all.
7 > It helps if your computer is stolen. This is more, but not only, relevant
8 > to laptops.
9 >
10 >
11
12 I admit, I have never used encryption like this before. I am assuming
13 that if I logout of my GUI, then it is encrypted at that point? Once I
14 log back in, it decrypts it again? Am I at least close?
15
16 I do have a desktop system. No lappy, yet anyway. Maybe one of these days.
17
18 Dale
19
20 :-) :-)
21
22 --
23 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>