Isn't it time for the encrypted file system???

[Paul W. Frields]

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.

As long as there's a clear visible option to do away with encryption on
the FS, that's cool.  Deciding to put important data in a possibly
unretrievable state in the event of a user departure from a company or
an untimely demise is not a great idea without a plan to recover it.  My
laptop is owned by my company, and I am sure they don't want me
encrypting data on it in a manner which prevents them from accessing it
should they wish to.

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE                          http://paul.frields.org/
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