[Bradford] A topic suggestion

[Tom Holderness]

Hi guys,
An interesting story (which I'm sure some of you will have read) about
fighting theft with a macbook and webcam!
(here)<http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/thieves-caught-on-stolen-macbook-webcam-20080513/>.
An example of software which builds on this idea is
Adeona<http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html>where at given
intervals logs the laptop IP location, something worth
researching a bit more?

I'm looking forward to exploring the encryption features in Ubuntu
8.10...but haven't yet had time to clone my disk before upgrading.

and finaly for those of you bored at work....a small cartoon about the joys
of virus free Linux :) http://xkcd.com/272/

T

2008/10/31 Richard Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>

> hiya david
>
>
> I use Luks ( http://luks.endorphin.org/ ) for my hard drive encryption its
> part of the installer on the ubuntu alternate cd  this keeps all my
> documents safe
>
> i also use it on my removable backups /usb keys  to ensure the backup is
> safe
>
> paranoid little bunny i am :D
>
>
>  ubutnu 8.10 also has a "private folder" that makes one folder encrypted
> if you don't want to go down the whole disk encryption road
> I don't know much about that as its pointless making an encrypted folder on
> a encrypted hard drive
>
> not even I am that paranoid
>
>
> http://www.immobilise.com/
> is also a good way of trying to get your stolen items back
>
>
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>
>
> 2008/10/31 David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
>
> I'd be interested to hear a bit about keeping your portable data safe.
>>
>> In the light of government gaffs over lost laptops etc, what should we
>> be doing to keep the data on our laptops, pen drives, ipods(?) (I don't
>> have one!) safe if we lose them?
>>
>> Anybody else?
>>
>> ...oh and if you do find my laptop can you please return it to me, and
>> don't look in the 'secret passwords' folder please. Just kidding!
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Carpenter
>>
>> nornir
>>
>> E: david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk
>> Skype: carpenter.david
>>
>> Please save paper and only print this email if you have to.
>>
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