Privacy

[Lindenaar, D.J.W.]

Even with this speed-decrease, if you'd try and make it so that this
secure partition is fairly small and mounted as a subdir in the home of
the accountant this overhead decreases to a little longer waiting for
gnucash startup and save. This doesn't even bother a slow cpu to much
(since it already takes long...)

Greetz Daniel 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces at lists.gnucash.org [mailto:gnucash-user-
> bounces at lists.gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
> Sent: vrijdag 12 maart 2004 21:09
> To: Marc Evans
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Privacy
> 
> Marc Evans <Marc at SoftwareHackery.Com> writes:
> 
> > While I can understand and agree with your summary, I will ask the
> > question, what do you propose people do to minimize problems that
could
> be
> > caused as a result of a computer theft, such that the computer
contains
> > one or more gnucash databases which happen to contain sensitive
> > information such as credit card numbers and other data useful for
> identify
> > theft? My gut instinct is to lean toward an encrypted filesystem,
which
> of
> > course has performance implications. Are there other techniques that
> > people are employing today to deal with this?
> 
> An encrypted filesystem is exactly what I would recommend first.  With
> today's CPU speeds, you wont notice the overhead.
> 
> My second suggestion would be a USB drive (or even a USB "token"
drive)
> which you can carry around with you on your keychain.
> 
> My third suggestion would be to PGP-encrypt your data file..  And be
sure
> to encrypt/delete your backup/log files.
> 
> Again, I do not believe this is GnuCash's role.
> 
> > - Marc
> 
> -derek
> 
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