Once again, Ubuntu’s commitment to security concerns is proven. As of Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 5, using the Live CD installer (that is to say the installer the majority of users install from) will great you with a high value feature : encrypt your home directory using eCryptfs.
This is great news, and I heavily encourage anyone to tick that box and encrypt your home directory, particularly if you have a laptop. When you’ll enable it, it will crypt all files that reside in your personal folders on a per user/per file basis.
Not only will it encrypt your home directory, but it will automatically set up your swap partition to be encrypted as well. Thumbs up to Dustin Kirkland for his great work on implementing eCryptfs in Ubuntu !
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