[CS-FSLUG] Notebook computers
Josiah Ritchie
jritchie at bible.edu
Tue May 25 07:12:57 CDT 2004
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/
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