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Note to EFF: FDE implementation in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity is only at 50%

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http://www.linuxbsdos.com – In Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Full Disk Encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee gave the non-profit organization some credit for pushing Mark Shuttleworth and crew to implement full disk encryption (FDE) in Ubiquity, the graphical installation program of Ubuntu Desktop. That feature, together with LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, made their debut in Ubuntu 12.10, the latest release of the popular Linux distribution. (See Ubuntu 12.10 review.) while their’s no arguing the fact that the EFF’s campaign played some part in getting FDE implemented in Ubiqui (General)

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hello,

i got a macbook pro 9,1 (mid 2012) and plan on finally switching from osx as main system and windows for games, to ubuntu as main one and osx just for firmware updates.

how would i do that, while still being able to use the full disk encryption from the ubuntu installer (so easy).

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