Leonard Rosenthol on Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:37:50 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Linux Crypto File Systems

At 12:53 PM -0500 12/10/00, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: 
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
 >	It's hard to write software on an airplane at 30,000 feet that way ;).

I do a lot of work on it, but I do it in CVS trees that I commit
and blow away when I'm back to a network connection or I just do
it remotely.

And what happens if the laptop is stolen before you get back to the connection? Sure, you'd lose what you wrote - but more importantly, someone would now have a copy of your (possibly) proprietary sources. (please send all replies concerning open source to /dev/null).


Even if you're going to build on a different
machine than the production one, it should at least be a pretty
similar machine, imho.)

I can understand that for some software, but those of us who write client software, or who can develop for server platforms on laptops, don't have this problem.


It's this presumption that it's even possible for a laptop to be
secure that makes, for instance, Dell's marketing laptops as "Desktop
Replacements" really scary for me as an admin.

I personally think that with the right tools, a laptop can be MORE secure. For example, on both my Mac Powerbook and my Sony Vaio (Win2K) I run PGPDisk (<http://www.pgp.com>) which allows me to maintain an encrypted volume with all my sources. This volume is auto-unmounted whenever the computer is put to sleep (or shut down), so that unless someone steals the machine while I am using it, there is NO CHANCE for them to get at my sources!


LDR

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