encrypted home directory / wrapped-passphrase

[chris]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:20 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 03:37 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 
> > And, depending on which part of the world you are living in, there are
> > laws which REQUIRE you (under the penalty of having your genitals
> > removed with wire-cutters [if you are male that is :-) ]) to provide the
> > government authorities (you know the ones) with the password you have
> > used to encrypt your zip file *OR*, repeat OR, your *whole* (file)
> > system for that matter! (There is discussion about this but which I
> > won't go into here; but have a look in the Wikipedia, for example, about
> > this subject of encryption).
> 
> Being grey haired and lazy, I've always looked askance at going the 
> encryption route. I am just wondering though, if I had something that 
> really needed double-naught protection can a CD or DVD be created with 
> an encrypted file system, with the aforementioned Top-Secret files, in a 
> ISO burn?
> 
> If the storm troopers were breaking down your doors, I guess you could 
> just snap the CD/DVD in half to really screw them over when they try to 
> glue an encrypted broken-in-half media back for recovery purposes.
> 
> Then bite down hard on the cyanide tablet embedded in your left rear 
> molar ...for Queen and Country. <cackles> 00-Ric
> 
> -- 
> My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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> 
> 
> 

10 seconds in a micro wave is quicker Ric
:-)