reasons to encrypt mail and data

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote:

> keys I posess.  I also keep my home directory on all systems which
> might contain sensitive data on an encrypted partition.  I feel

What do you use for that?

> confident that if someone broke into my house and stole my computer,
> they would not be able to get at my financial info or my contact
> database.  And I think the government would have a hard time, though
> I'm sure they'd get it eventually if they tried long enough.  The one
> thing I DON'T do (yet) is encrypt my e-mail partition on my mail
> server, but I just haven't gotten to it yet.  =8^)

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