Allegedly, on or about 04 April 2013, Joe Zeff sent: > ...[snip a pile of stuff that has nothing to do with real security]... > having your whole file system encrypted is just holding up a big, red > sign telling everybody that you have something to hide No, it's just called privacy, something that seems to be sadly lacking in modern society - whether that be unceasing personal questions from governments, or commercial surveyors endlessly polling us about our lives, or social networking WWW services that lull people into blabbing all sorts of personal information out in public... About 15 years ago, anybody asking such personal questions would have been told, quite bluntly, to, "mind your own bloody business." Just as locking my house isn't about hiding some deadly secret, it's about keeping what's mine, mine, and all the asshats out. Encrypting my data is nothing more than that. And as it becomes easier for ordinary users to securely encrypt drives, it'll become more commonly done. We'll be all the better for it, too. For what it's worth, in my opinion, encrypting just a part of your drive may give a hint of suspicion, but encrypting the whole drive just looks like sensible security precautions. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:09:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't use Windows. -- 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
