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Recovering encrypted home directory under Ubuntu
While the home-folder encryption in Ubuntu is far from a perfect solution (there is considerable data leakage from the swap file and the temp directory – for example once I’ve observed the flash videos from Chromium porn private browsing mode being present in the /tmp directory), it is a partial solution nevertheless and very easy…
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Back with a vengeance
I’ve had limited connectivity / time in the last couple of weeks, but I’m back baby! The lesson of the day: you shouldn’t let your AV vendor provide general security. The lesson comes to us via Graham Cluley’s Sophos blog, which informs us that Sophos released a free encryption tool. So, what’s wrong with it?…