starting Fedora Server SIG

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 17:18:24 -0600,
  Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>> Don't be so sure about that.  In a colo environment I /would/ want some
>> encryption on the disk, and if I have to use a remote kvm to input the
>> passphrase at reboot time, that's OK.
>
> It might be good to have as an option for the database holding the  
> personal or credit card info but I don't think you'd really like that on  
> a large server farm.

If you have any data you want confidential at a server farm, you want to
consider encryption. What if someone subpoena's the colo company? How do you
know they aren't going to roll over and release your data without giving you
a chance to contest it?