On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:31 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > 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. As long as there's a clear visible option to do away with encryption on the FS, that's cool. Deciding to put important data in a possibly unretrievable state in the event of a user departure from a company or an untimely demise is not a great idea without a plan to recover it. My laptop is owned by my company, and I am sure they don't want me encrypting data on it in a manner which prevents them from accessing it should they wish to. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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