Comment 3 for bug 277894

that is an excellent idea! perfect! genius!

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Dustin Kirkland
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> I'm currently working encrypting the entire user's home directory. I'm
> going to propose this again for Jaunty.
>
> :-Dustin
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> ** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => In Progress
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> ** Summary changed:
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> - anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu
> + anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories
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> --
> anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277894
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> Status in "ecryptfs-utils" source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
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> Bug description:
> all of my personal files i store in ubuntu can be accessed by anyone with a livecd without knowing my password. mac actually locks your personal data by default so if you put a livecd in and try to access them it will prompt you for the password. ubuntu does not have this. this renders all of my personal files insecure. this seems pretty serious to me.
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> try using a livecd to read data from your home folder on a mac and see what happens. this is what should happen in ubuntu.
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> once again, seeing as this applies to everyone on a default setup and how it allows anyone to see all of the files on the computer without a password, including extremely private and critical ones, and seeing as how you can eveen delete these files too, it seems pretty serious to me.
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