[CS-FSLUG] Notebook computers

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:17, David Aikema wrote:
> On Monday 24 May 2004 06:23 am, David M. wrote:
> 
> > so if someone were to steal the computer, if they know what they are doing,
> > they could be past the BIOS in 5 minutes. if someone who doesn't know
> > anything about comuters were to steal it, having a computer tech reset the
> > BIOS isn't expensive. So your best bet is to padlock your laptop to your
> > waiste. ; - )
> 
> Or alternatively, use encryption on personal files.

You could even encrypt the entire filesystem if you went the Linux way.
>From what I've read it isn't too hard and doesn't cause any great
degredation in performance.

JSR/