Isn't it time for the encrypted file system???
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Mar 23 19:05:32 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:31 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Received an FedEX from Fidelity this morning seems, one of their
> laptops was stolen. On the laptop, was the Personal information,
> including Social Security number, of everyone in the HP Retirement
> plan (I suppose this includes DEC/Compaq and HP. They have us jumping
> through hoops and going to Credit Agencies to watch for unusual activity.
> Now if the system had been encrypted ... Now why was this data on a
> laptop? I don't know.
>
> Laptops have becoming the standard machine for people, replacing the
> desktop. We need to consider defaulting FC6 with encrypted filesystem
> or at least homedirs out of the box. This should be a key feature of FC6.
Or maybe corporations handling that kind of data need to do take
protective security measures for their installations of operating
systems.
if I were in the same position I would, of course, use encrypted file
systems - but to have that overhead for the default is a bit extreme.
Sounds like the IT group in corporation needs to stop being so naive.
-sv
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