On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:14:22PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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> I'll be setting up a new box for the house and I want to use OpenBSD for
> it, both for its security and since it will be an older box it will run
> better than with Debian.
> 
> Roles:
> 
> main firewall for dialup internet access.
> fetchmail and sendmail to ISP smarthost
> other simple stuff (have another box for insecure stuff like watching
> 	videos, surfing the net with javascript and flash).
> 
> 
> We've moved and now our main security threat is physical security.  We
> don't want the data on the computer (i.e. in the /home directories) to
> be readable if someone steals the box.

if someone knowledgeable enough has physical access to the running box, you
can't keep the data private.