RE Re: Ubuntu ISO Testing team: New build notification-why encryption support is needed

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, November 29, 2011 8:10 pm, Luke Kuhn wrote:
>
> Yes there is a reason why encryption would be used with ubuntustudio:
> Dissident, protest and political opposition media makers. I make video and
> audio news and opinion media for progressive movements in the US. There
> have been grand jury subpeonas (which people like me do NOT comply with)
> and police raids on activist media maker's homes. One of those raids in
> 2008 stole a computer with Ubuntustudio Hardy from my house-fortunately
> one with the media files on an encrypted partition! They never returned
> for a second computer or hard drive, other evidence suggests they were
> never able to penetrate the encryption.

Point taken. I am not as politically active, but, I do see personal
freedoms going away at great speed... and perhaps a day in the not too
distant future where the whole internet is held together by a non-isp mesh
(wireless or otherwise). I will do every other test encrypted... though I
think it is only the home directory that the switch turns on.

There seems to be some info stored from boot to boot on the install disk
if it is writeable. The second time I don't get asked as many keyboard
questions.

-- 
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net