2012-07-20, 00:11
This might be a subject that is kinda tabu of several reasons, in some countrys it is even possible that this is not allowed by the government in that country.
Everyone should follow the law in their country! ^^
Anyway. I know a friend that is kind of an expert on linux and, yes short story, he's work is primarily about/in linux. When I once asked him about if it is possible to encrypt every harddrive as single partitions or make one large partition with, for example 4 hdd's and then encrypt them in such a way that you only need a USB-stick to decrypt it. This might seem confusing for some of you but let me explain more!
You have your new HTPC with 12 TB nice fresh WD caviar black disks Now you have a problem. You wanna have X on this computer, but there is a supernormous problem, if you rip Your Own baught DVD or Blu-Ray to this computer you will get more jail time than a man that just killed his wife and two children in other countries. So what is the solution? Simple -> Encryption.
As I said it might be tabu, but Im using my free speech right and hope that that is fine with all others. IF NOT PLEASE JUST x-OUT THE PART THAT IS NOW ALLOWED ON THIS FORUM ! ;|
I would want a simple clean dialog box when you install XBMCbuntu that clearly states "Do you want to make one big partition of all your hdd's and encrypt them?"
Y/n
If Yes, the following will show: "Please insert the smallest USB-stick you possible can find. This USB stick will act as the decryption key so DONT LOOSE IT!"
Now to the funny part, when you start your HTPC and the stick is not insertet you will only get a black screen with the text: "No operating system found".
When you insert the USB-stick, BOOM the login process starts automaticlly.
If you in the middle of a movie or whatever remove the USB-stick of some reason the screen will go black within 5 sec (fast as possible) and you will only get the same message as before: "No operating system found".
I searched the forums earlier and didnt find any post about this, wich I found very strange.
If not for any other reason it is a fun tech thingy to encrypt the system, dont you think?
Most of it is proberbly already out there as GNU or something, jsut to implement?
Everyone should follow the law in their country! ^^
Anyway. I know a friend that is kind of an expert on linux and, yes short story, he's work is primarily about/in linux. When I once asked him about if it is possible to encrypt every harddrive as single partitions or make one large partition with, for example 4 hdd's and then encrypt them in such a way that you only need a USB-stick to decrypt it. This might seem confusing for some of you but let me explain more!
You have your new HTPC with 12 TB nice fresh WD caviar black disks Now you have a problem. You wanna have X on this computer, but there is a supernormous problem, if you rip Your Own baught DVD or Blu-Ray to this computer you will get more jail time than a man that just killed his wife and two children in other countries. So what is the solution? Simple -> Encryption.
As I said it might be tabu, but Im using my free speech right and hope that that is fine with all others. IF NOT PLEASE JUST x-OUT THE PART THAT IS NOW ALLOWED ON THIS FORUM ! ;|
I would want a simple clean dialog box when you install XBMCbuntu that clearly states "Do you want to make one big partition of all your hdd's and encrypt them?"
Y/n
If Yes, the following will show: "Please insert the smallest USB-stick you possible can find. This USB stick will act as the decryption key so DONT LOOSE IT!"
Now to the funny part, when you start your HTPC and the stick is not insertet you will only get a black screen with the text: "No operating system found".
When you insert the USB-stick, BOOM the login process starts automaticlly.
If you in the middle of a movie or whatever remove the USB-stick of some reason the screen will go black within 5 sec (fast as possible) and you will only get the same message as before: "No operating system found".
I searched the forums earlier and didnt find any post about this, wich I found very strange.
If not for any other reason it is a fun tech thingy to encrypt the system, dont you think?
Most of it is proberbly already out there as GNU or something, jsut to implement?