On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Les<hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Earlier on in one of the threads, someone compared encryption with an > envelope. That is pretty good. You know the information is in there, > but the only way to get it is to open the envelope. The question is how > long does it take to open the envelope. No encryption is unbreakable. > The value of encryption is how long does it take to break it. You shouldn't be developing nuclear weapons in your basement in the first place and storing your top-secret classified documents in your personal hard drive!!. Much less talking about it on a public mailing list. Next time do the drawings with pencil on a sheet of paper, memorize them all, then shred it and eat the little pieces with some soup. Oh wait, it wasn't you. It was Dean whom started this thread.... <VBG> Now seriously, speaking of data security, the other day I was looking for Word templates and found somene's hard drive fully shared on a http server, down to the desktop folder, windows dir, etcetera. It seems he created a "secret" folder under his public http dir and mounted his windows root there, and "somehow" Google ended up indexing it all. Talk about privacy...But I bet he'll take great care to erase his hd before getting rid of it so no data falls in the wrong hands.... FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
