2009/4/26 Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>:
> I'm still talking about theft of machines (particularly laptops) as that is
> a major threat. One need only read the British newspapers to discover story
> after story of articles where "sensitive information was on a laptop which
> was stolen". As pointed out elsewhere, psql + encrypted drive is entirely
> unpractical as no OS is setup to ask for an encrypted drive password on boot
> (similarly for headless machines, user interaction is required). A practical
> solution that accomplishes the same goals as the encrypted drive is
> necessary.
Buy a higher end thinkpad, it uses a BIOS password and an ASIC
to encrypt the data in hardware, w/o impact on performance.