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Subject: [Discuss] Full disk encryption
From: bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:40:15 -0500
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On 1/3/2012 12:16 AM, a k'wala wrote:
> Any thoughts on the kind of security risk I might be vulnerable to 
> because I only encrypt my home dir as opposed to the full disk?

Many applications use /tmp or /var files as working storage, and they 
leave ghosts behind.

Bill

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