Ask HN: Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk?

Re:Ask HN: Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk? by tooto on Sunday September 12, 2010 @03:54AM (#1683264)

yes .. because I can. My macbook was stolen out of my flat this year and it was a good feeling not to have to worry about the data.

don't get why you would encrypt your whole disk though. the home is all I need encrypted.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk? by nonane on Sunday September 12, 2010 @04:00AM (#1683272)

Good point. On Windows I have my data lying around in a few places (including a separate partition). I guess I want total peace of mind - for example, I don't want to worry about any data lying around in the hibernation files, crash dumps, /tmp etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk? by pquerna on Sunday September 12, 2010 @04:13AM (#1683288)

I use encrypted DMGs on osx, with specific folders symlinked to be inside the DMG, for example:

  /Users/chip/work/company -> /Volumes/enc-base/work/company
  /Users/chip/.subversion -> /Volumes/enc-base/dotfiles/subversion
  /Users/chip/.ssh -> /Volumes/enc-base/dotfiles/ssh
  /Users/chip/Library -> /Volumes/enc-base/Library
  /usr/local/mysql/current/data -> /Volumes/enc-base/mysql-data

I don't imagine its perfect, but I know most of my important and confidential things are encrypted.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk? by thibaut_barrere on Sunday September 12, 2010 @04:18AM (#1683297)

You may need to ensure your databases (eg mysql) don't have data that require attention, too.

That's why I'm slowly moving from a general mysql/mongo/redis instance toward a per-folder instance that I run when I need it.

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