Re: mlock(1)

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 17:24:50 EST


On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:03:44PM -0700, Robert White wrote:
> (Stupid Idea Warning... 8-)
>
> The top-n reasons (mentioned) to want to have your swap encrypted involve things like
> dealing with a stolen/sold drive or someone using a boot CD to peak into your swapped

The stolen/sold drive is a subset of the stolen/sold laptop/desktop
instead. In such case they would get access to all your hardware info.
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