Which release should we be using?
Anthony Papillion
papillion at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 22:07:11 CEST 2011
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On 8/26/2011 10:25 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>
> Oh, you can own an encrypted filesystem, even if the box is down. The
> Evil Maid attack makes this trivial. And it doesn't matter the
> encryption software used either.
I read about this attack a few years ago on Bruce Scheiner's blog. It
scared the crap out of me then and it still worries me quite a bit. Of
course, it's just a variant of what we've been telling people forever
now: if the system is compromised, encryption is useless. Still, it's
pretty scary stuff.
Anthony
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