ATOT Nef Thread?

[MotF Bane]

BAHAHAHHAHAHA. He's on a roll again.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

Inspired by the P&N thread regarding warrantless cellphone searches, I have my research topic for the day. Encryption.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

nef

 

[MotF Bane]

For which my immediate impression is to leave the OS drives unencrypted, and route all files to successive encrypted drives. I don't know whether that will leave fragments of the moved files on the unencrypted drives though.

 

[MotF Bane]

At the very least, this should keep me amused all day. And it's cheaper than looking at cars.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

Well, I'm adding another drive to my main... it'll end up as 60GB SSD holding the OS and programs, with a 1TB holding the rest of the stuff. Encrypting that entire drive would likely be the easiest thing - it's going to hold all documents and files, plus virtual machines. Not that the VM's need the encryption.

 

[MotF Bane]

Now looking at TrueCrypt.

 

[MotF Bane]

Ouch, performance penalties.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

Sometimes it'd be nice not to have a file server to be concerned about. All those extra drives that can fail, all that unprotected data, the extra power/heat/space of another running computer...

 

[MotF Bane]

Then I wonder where would I keep terabytes of stuff. And there is no better answer.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Why would you encrypt a drive in a desktop at home?

 

[MotF Bane]

Keeping it in the primary computer, perhaps, but only if you have enough physical capacity for that many drives.

 

[MotF Bane]

Why would you encrypt a drive in a desktop at home?

I swear that said "wow would you" when I clicked quote. Losing my mind.

*shrug* All these stories that crop up about warrantless searches. I'm a little paranoid. So I'm looking it up, and seeing if it remains interesting.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I swear that said "wow would you" when I clicked quote. Losing my mind.

I did -- I was doing two things at once and then corrected it. 😀

*shrug* All these stories that crop up about warrantless searches. I'm a little paranoid. So I'm looking it up, and seeing if it remains interesting.

We are involved in a lot of legal cases and have lots of confidential data, and our entire workforce uses laptops. So we use an encryption product called Credant and it is really slick. Now that I look, I notice that I don't have the client on my PC since I reimaged it. I should probably install that, even though I don't have many confidential things to worry about.

 

[MotF Bane]

I suppose if you only had one computer that uses the data, the file server becomes useless.

 

[MotF Bane]

I did -- I was doing two things at once and then corrected it. 😀

:awe:

We are involved in a lot of legal cases and have lots of confidential data, and our entire workforce uses laptops. So we use an encryption product called Credant and it is really slick. Now that I look, I notice that I don't have the client on my PC since I reimaged it. I should probably install that, even though I don't have many confidential things to worry about.

My laptop hasn't left the house in probably over a year.

 

[MotF Bane]

Let's see... the file server would take the negligible load away of file transfers, serve as a physically isolated (heat/electricity/space) unit, and provide easy network access for multiple machines. I think the third is the biggest reason for a file server, unless I've missed something.

 

[MotF Bane]

And reaching 10TB of non-redundant storage would take a lot of motherboard ports, a lot of power plugs, and a lot of physical space out of a computer.

 

[zzuupp]

nef

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

The ATOT Alcohol Snobs are out in force today.

 

[Barfo]

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