Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > > > I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't > > want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an > > encrypted partitiion, and keep sensitive data on it. > > You might also consider keeping it on a flash drive with an ext4 file > system, as most people who'd find it wouldn't know how to read it. As a warning to future readers, this is just bad advice because then the files would be unencrypted on a device that is much easier to lose. Security through obscurity by itself is not a valid approach. Changing the port that SSH listens on may reduce the number of automated attacks, but it's still important to disallow root logins, use key-based authentication, maintain IP white/blacklists, etc. Regards, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
