Re: Avoiding LVM -

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On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:41 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
> 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.
----
and one that has a substantially higher likelihood of failure than a
hard drive. It was a bad recommendation on so many levels. Anyone who
entrusts their only copy of a valued file to a USB flash drive is
certain to learn a lesson the hard way.

Craig


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