From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:52:40 -0500 From: William Josephson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie question Message-ID: <20060206205240.GA28931@mero.morphisms.net> References: <45219fb00602061210m75023a3cr@mail.gmail.com> <3026cbac2aa9cb3cc0fa36751fff2306@cat-v.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3026cbac2aa9cb3cc0fa36751fff2306@cat-v.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: f572fb04-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:21:49PM +0100, uriel@cat-v.org wrote: > It is possible that some form of full disk encryption could help, but > no other 'mainstream' OSes do that AFAIK. I think you get a lot less mileage out of this sort of thing than most people seem to believe. But OS X, FreeBSD, and I believe Linux all support it. I'm sure someone has a VxD for Windows to do it, too, but I've never had reason to investigate. -WJ