[plug] [link] interesting approach to notebook security

[Jason Bainbridge]

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http://www.nah6.com/secure_notebook.html

The native operating system ran on the notebook is Debian and this software 
sits kind of like a conduit between Debian and an instance of VMWare (quoted 
as running a Windows XP image), assumedly allowing the user to transparently 
use VMWare as if it is the physical machine. 

The virtual disk used by VMWare is encrypted (OpenPGP?) and assumedly uses the 
standard passphrase method to encrypt any data before it is written to the 
virtual disk and it is all decrypted by entering your passphrase upon booting 
the viirtual machine.

It seems a round about way to go about it, but interesting that they are using 
Linux to secure Win XP, although they fail to mention that Direct3D and 
DirectSound stuff won'tl work with it (due to limitations with VMWare).

The original link came from here:

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5141105%5e15397%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

On an unrelated note news.google.com seems like a much better way to keep up 
to date on linux related happenings than visiting the usual news sites 
individually/

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Jason Bainbridge
KDE - Conquer Your Desktop
The KDE Usability Project - http://usability.kde.org
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