On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther  wrote:

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> are you sure you want to encrypt your *whole* drive though?

Yes. (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week)
> Is your

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> data really that secret?

Why is that important? AKA "it's my laptop, and I will explicitly

choose to disclose it's contents." (says the guy who left his laptop

in an airport last week)
> For most people there are only a few /really

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> secret/ things, and you can just make a small secure partition and

> place them in there.

except for when you forget to encrypt something, or when a process

unexpectedly leaves plaintext laying about (editor temp files, core

dumps, i-meant-to-download-that-someplace-else, ...), or when you

forget your laptop in an airport or a taxi or leave the door to your

office unlocked...
> Encryption does take a performance hit.
Worthy trade-off.
CK
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GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?