| Leonard Rosenthol on Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:47:44 -0500 |
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At 7:55 PM -0500 12/10/00, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: (Wireless ethernet at the LISA conference was beautiful.) Tell me about it! The last couple of conferences that I've been too also have it up and running and it's amazing! Some practical behavior is maybe in order, though... I mean, if it's always in your sight or locked in your hotel room with you, your laptop really *can't* be stolen, now can it? Sure it can! I know someone who had his stolen from between his legs while he was on the phone waiting for a plane at JFK! > I personally think that with the right tools, a laptop can beMORE 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! Actually, it's EXACTLY what was talked about! PGPDisk creates a "virtual disk" which is encrypted. The only difference from what was discussed is that the "volume" in question is virtual (ie. it's a physical file on a disk that is made to appear as a volume/disk/mount point) rather than being a real disk partition.
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