On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 07:53 +0200, Andreas Fournier wrote: > I just read this article about weaknesses in Linux disk encryption > https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html > and wonder how it applies to Fedora? To be honest, I've always considered encryption of drives to *probably* be able to protect your data from the casual thief, but not from government agencies (who do have the computing horsepower to brute force things, or have managed to spy on you). And for all we know, one of their programmers secretly contributed code to the encryption feature. On the other hand, if your drive was super-heavily-encrypted, it'd be a pain for all the files that you need to read and write as you used it. But even new hardware can have malware preinstalled. My laptop did. Asus clearly used a cracked version of WinZip in preparing the drive image, it had the tool used for cracking it (with malware in it), installed on the system. And it was only a few days ago I watched a video criticising just about every Android TV box for some dodgy updating tool that's pre-installed on them. And I recall in recent years a stoush in the news about an government agency wanting to crack an iPhone, Apple refusing to help, threats escalated, but they cracked it via some third party in the end, anyway. But if you try to create a super-secure something, *they* try very hard to outlaw it. So I have little trust in anything. Fortunately I'm not plotting coups, nor work in soul-destroying three-letter-agencies. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 15:41:52 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
