[Cialug] OT: Macbook for sale

[Don Cady]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> Well, if I had such sensitive and critical data that I needed to hide my
> operating system then it would probably be worthwhile tradeoff.
>
> Considering that truecrypt works on Linux and Mac OS and that Linux has a
> lot of encryption options available to it, and the filesystem is opensource
> as well as the bootloader and the rest of the OS, I'm surprised that it
> isn't a supported operating system for this.
>
> Maybe it changes too fast.
>
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> Matthew Nuzum
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You could always run a VM that lives in an encrypted volume. The VMM
would give away the fact that it exists by pointing to it in normal
space, but the Truecrypt bootloader does almost the same. It doesn't
point directly to it, but why else would you be using that bootloader?
There goes deniability (+ the bits Schneier showed) .

Nate- It's not OSS, but Pointsec is still available.

Don