I just use two RAIDed NAS boxes, one as a long term, large file media/data store and another for small files on SSD RAID. All my comps are now dumb terminals, booting an OS and software. Works well and was surprisingly cheap for what is essentially a complete, hassle free system.
New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
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Re: New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
#32None of my current computers is powerful enough for that without it being a serious hassle. And I'm pretty sure it will drain my laptop battery much faster...
It looks like many people assume this to be so but haven't done the benchmarks. FDE is going to be a much smaller hit than say anti-virus software. Encryption routines have been highly optimized into the multi gigabytes per second range.
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#33I wonder if there would be significant environmental implications if everyone switched to full disk encryption... Does this impose a significant processor load and does that translate to greater power consumption?
I wouldn't worry too much about it. There is a fixed CPU overhead, but negligible.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bitlocker-truecrypt-encr...
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#34I wonder if there would be significant environmental implications if everyone switched to full disk encryption... Does this impose a significant processor load and does that translate to greater power consumption?
An idling CPU and a slightly loaded CPU use about the same amount of energy. I think my Q6600 quad used 190W @ idle and running full tilt cpu (ray tracing) it was using 220W. For FDE it depends on how much IO you are doing. I doubt it will make even a 0.01 difference in your daily power consumption.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use FDE and then encrypted vaults for each project. Even if my computer is lost/stolen when it's on or asleep and the FDE does nothing, I can be assured that the vast majority of the sensitive data is safe.
I'm adding FDE too :) I use Knox for Vaults (on Mac), what do you use out of curiosity?
Knox is a better UI for the bultin in folder encryption on OSX?
Re: New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
#36It's sad we need encryption mostly for protection from not criminals, but our own government for even trivial data. What freaks me out most these days is how easily people fall into the belief that "oh well traveling is not a right so you have to give up rights when you fly or drive anywhere". No, if you are a citizen of the United States and unless you are actually crossing a border, you should have the unqualified…
No, if you are a citizen of the United States and unless you are actually crossing a border, you should have the unqualified protection against unreasonable searches, especially without warrants.
I agree. Practically speaking, the government can only search what you're physically carrying over the border. That means if you boot from something like a live CD and store all your data in the cloud, you're safe from search. To search a US-based cloud provider, the government needs warrants and for those they need probable cause, which means you are relatively protected against unreasonable searches.
I encrypt my laptop because I don't want to rely on the cloud, but this is hardly the path of least resistance. If you want to be secure in your papers, don't have any papers.
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#37Enlightening (and scary) stuff.
Encryption is great but won't save you if they ask for your password (honestly, I'd prefer to give them the password and circumvent using online storage.)
With that in mind - what advice would all you security buffs have on the best way to back up your hard drive to an online disk? Specifically using a basic hosting account as opposed to SAAS or cloud service?
Re: New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
#38It's sad we need encryption mostly for protection from not criminals, but our own government for even trivial data. What freaks me out most these days is how easily people fall into the belief that "oh well traveling is not a right so you have to give up rights when you fly or drive anywhere". No, if you are a citizen of the United States and unless you are actually crossing a border, you should have the unqualified…
To be honest, I don't see why national borders are so strongly part of the equation. I suppose that depends on your worldview. I live within the Schengen Area, and to me it seem patently obvious that most 'bad things' in the world are hardly affected by national borders. They're typically supra-national (climate change, credit crunch, cracking, etc) or intra-national (most crime, etc. I don't mean to argue for more c…
Drug trafficking and illegal immigration?
Re: New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
#39It's sad we need encryption mostly for protection from not criminals, but our own government for even trivial data. What freaks me out most these days is how easily people fall into the belief that "oh well traveling is not a right so you have to give up rights when you fly or drive anywhere". No, if you are a citizen of the United States and unless you are actually crossing a border, you should have the unqualified…
To be honest, I don't see why national borders are so strongly part of the equation. I suppose that depends on your worldview. I live within the Schengen Area, and to me it seem patently obvious that most 'bad things' in the world are hardly affected by national borders. They're typically supra-national (climate change, credit crunch, cracking, etc) or intra-national (most crime, etc. I don't mean to argue for more c…
My understanding is World War I. Apparently passports and visas were an innovation inspired by the militarism and nationalism that swept Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.
However governments rarely divest themselves of power once acquired, and so although many, many more folk are internationalist these years, there exists this relict of national control.
/stills rant about how in the United States, the Social Security was promised never to be used as a universal identifier.
Re: New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest, I don't see why national borders are so strongly part of the equation. I suppose that depends on your worldview. I live within the Schengen Area, and to me it seem patently obvious that most 'bad things' in the world are hardly affected by national borders. They're typically supra-national (climate change, credit crunch, cracking, etc) or intra-national (most crime, etc. I don't mean to argue for more c…
Drug trafficking and illegal immigration?
Human trafficking is the new drugs. Apparently it's enormously more profitable to import sex workers and keep them in a kind of narcotic/whatever assisted slavery, because of the reuse of the person vs. the consuming nature of the drug.