We all have information we want to keep private. If you look at the links on the left of this blog, you will
notice a growing list of tools which can help. I would like to collect resources and write a
number of tutorials on the technical and social steps you need to take to secure
your data with minimal technological experience.
So, what would you like to know first? Secure instant messaging? Private email? Keeping the data on your hard drive from private
eyes? Anonymous publishing on the web? Steganography? Anonymous web surfing? Anonymous digital currency?
Are you knowledgeable on any of these subjects? Please consider writing a tutorial or
contributing links.
Most pressing I find encryption of laptop harddisks. I run Linux and so am minimally concerned about trojans stealing data, but if my laptop were stolen there are personally and commercially sensitive data that I would want to be unreadable.
I would prefer to encrypt the entire drive (root partition included) and have found mixed reports as to the possibility of this, so I would like to hear the straight story on harddisk encryption.
Thanks!
I use Truecrypt, but only to encrypt a single partition, not the root partition.
The upcoming version of TrueCrypt comes with better Linux support and Windows boot partition encryption.
http://www.truecrypt.org/future.php
@navaburo: I use LUKS for full-disk encryption (including the swap partition). It was an option in the Debian Etch installer so I didn’t need to configure anything, it was setup automatically.
Of course, there are also other ways to do this. I haven’t looked at TrueCrypt, yet.