[lug] off-topic: wireless ip security

[Bear Giles]

This brings up two of my "I need to do this" items on my list.

First, I can get "hotel safe" safes from Costco online, or countless other
places. They aren't that expensive - $150 is typical midrange. They won't
be any good in a fire but could be good "homes" for your laptops, good
camera gear, etc. Just make sure you lock it up as you go out the door.

A somewhat connected idea is that cheap laptops and nettop boxes (with
external HDs) mean you can put a backup server ANYWHERE. Well, even these
devices put off a little heat but it's managable. Think under the stairs,
laundry room, etc. All places where nobody would ever think to look for a
computer and even if they do it's easy to build a little mesh cage around
it.

This can even tie into the original question - if you have a secured backup
server then it's an obvious place to feed the video signal. If it's a
laptop and you have a shared dataplan you could even have a live feed of
suspicious activity even if the regular phone lines and cable are cut.


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Maxwell Spangler <
maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> **
>
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 22:56 -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
>
> We were robbed on Sunday.  Took my wife's car, among other things though
> only the dogs were home at the time (they're fine, though seem a little
> out of sorts).
>
>
> While this kind of very unfortunate event is much more rare out here than
> where I'm from back east, it does happen and you should take a moment to
> take note of what happened to Michael.
>
> Recently while upgrading all my home servers for a refresh I went out of
> my way to figure out how to do software raid + encryption + lvm +
> filesystems as a stack.
>
> It was the encryption part I worried would be too complex to figure out
> quickly for this stack.  I hadn't heard of any friends talking about how
> that should be a normal, best practice these days.  I already encrypt my
> laptop and my desktop (magically setup by the Fedora installer).  In this
> round of data re-organization I decided to encrypt the servers (it was
> easy) and external hard drives stored elsewhere (it was easier with these
> guys.)
>
> Friends in the past waved flags at me to follow best practices like
> regularly updating packages, enabling software firewalls, etc.  Those have
> become natural for me and I wouldn't think of operating one of my systems
> without it.  Now, I'm waving the flag at you to think about encrypting your
> data.
>
> Cheers,
>   --
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