> Received an FedEX from Fidelity this morning seems, one of their > laptops was stolen. On the laptop, was the Personal information, > including Social Security number, of everyone in the HP Retirement > plan (I suppose this includes DEC/Compaq and HP. They have us jumping > through hoops and going to Credit Agencies to watch for unusual activity. > Now if the system had been encrypted ... Now why was this data on a > laptop? I don't know. > > Laptops have becoming the standard machine for people, replacing the > desktop. We need to consider defaulting FC6 with encrypted filesystem > or at least homedirs out of the box. This should be a key feature of FC6. Please see: Encrypted swap https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127378 Encrypted root filesystem https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124789 Removable encrypted devices (Mostly done, thanks to David Zeuthen) http://www.flyn.org/easycrypto/easycrypto.html Implementing Encrypted Home Directories (using pam_mount) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6481 Encrypt Your Root Filesystem http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7743 -- Mike Petullo
