Since I’ve been writing this blog and collecting tutorials, I’ve tried to keep a focus on security and privacy. In light of your computer rights at boarder security, the House Passing the Pro-IP act, malicious script kiddies and crackers in this world, and if it’s a business machine, also worrying about your competition, there are a lot of people in this world that want to know what you’re doing on your computer and online, legally and illegally.

Drive Encryption

First thing first we need to make sure our drives are encrypted. OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, the upcoming Fedora 9 can all do this for you on the install.

1. Use Yast to Encrypt Partitions
2. Encrypted Root File System During Install in openSuse 10.3

We will also want to secure access to the disks by placing a password on the BIOS (varies by system), by password protecting GRUB and single user mode.

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