[GNUz] April 6thhardware trail

[Jim Cheetham]

Hard-drive encryption is a commonly available option these days; at 
prices starting from free to very very cheap. For the next machine, and 
all your current machines, please deploy encryption ASAP.

Under OS X, just ask for "FileVault" -- the OS will do everything for 
you.
Under Windows, I believe you can purchase PGPDrive as part of the 
current commercial PGP offering, or locate a free version via 
http://pgpi.com
Under Linux, the cryptoloop filesystem is reported to work well; 
although I haven't deployed it myself.

-jim

On Apr 9, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Sue McGaw wrote:

> Thank you John
> it is suspected that this may be an industry related theft, due to new 
> patent material, formulas etc found particularly in the email section 
> which had been sent confidentially to interested parties who could 
> subsequently make a lot of money from it.Within a week of some large 
> companies expressing an objection to a new product entering the 
> martket, the square box housing the hardrive was  purloined, as were 2 
> distinctive videocamera  all weather recording materials and animal 
> behavioral studies data. Trade me is being watched, so far no luck. 
> The all weather housing for the video cameras have yellow stripes on 
> them which are  unusual, as. covers for sony handheld videos and are 
> custom made. It is thought, find the video trail may lead to the 
> other.
>
> the rest of the computer parts were left behind.
> thank you for the forensic tip.
> Sue
>
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