[Sussex] Encryption for laptop use

[John Crowhurst]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 17:42, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> For all the obvious reasons, I want to make sure that some things
> aren't viewable if my laptop gets lost/stolen - particularly Firefox's
> files, since they'd give away far too many of my passwords.

Have a look at truecrypt.org as you can create encrypted volumes or
loopback filesystems. Alternatively, there is this tutorial:
http://www.greenleaftech.net/articles/filesystemcrypt

If your laptop gets stolen, it would more likely be reformatted and
Windows installed on it.

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John