[ale] 26G to backup

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 17:29:02 EST 2011


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On 12/31/2011 12:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:53 AM, David Tomaschik 
> <david at systemoverlord.com <mailto:david at systemoverlord.com>>
> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> The big headache is the time required to maintain the integrity
>> of
> the data.
>> As was pointed out earlier, encryption is a problem looking to
> happen. Save
>> yourself the headache and buy a data safe instead and park the
> archives
>> there. Unless the data is clearance level stuff now and already
>> stored encrypted, don't bother. If the media is stolen, the
>> encryption
> WILL be
>> cracked so it only make the maintenance cycle worse.
> 
> I've got to disagree here.  The most likely scenario for a theft
> of your drives is a common house burglar.  They might plug a hard
> drive in or see whats on a DVD, but they're certainly not going to
> break encryption.  I have plenty of data I don't want anyone
> perusing (mostly financial data -- 1040s, W2s, paystubs, etc.) and
> LUKS encryption on the hard drives my backups reside on should be
> plenty to deter "casual" snooping if the drive gets stolen.
> 
> 
> Point taken. If they went through my safe to get the backups, they
> are likely sophisticated enough to also use the wrench process to
> get the key from as well. So I rely on physical security for
> archives and encryption for mobile data.
> 
> 
> Plus, if the drive is encrypted and later fails, you don't have to 
> worry about whether there's some data that's still recoverable,
> etc.
> 
> 
> Old drive platters make nice wind chimes :-)

Also good analog clock faces
> 
> 
> The only entities with the resources to break any currently decent 
> cryptosystem (e.g., 128-bit AES) are large corporations and 
> governments, and they'll just use the WRENCH method for
> decryption: http://xkcd.com/538/
> 
> 
> Thus all my pr0n is encrypted to give them something to sort
> through :-D
> 
> 
> -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source
> Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com 
> david at systemoverlord.com <mailto:david at systemoverlord.com> 
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