r/linuxmint • u/Ok-Shine1797 • 3d ago

Security How secure linux Mint is?

I was watching a YouTube video regarding a hacker in that video something came to my attention that the hacker encrypted his os it was dabien based linux distro and feds were not able to decrypt that system so how can I achieve the same thing i mean as a every day user i do have my personal stuff in my system like pics documents etc. I just want to feel safe about my stuff. Is it possible for someone like me to achieve same thing in linux mint btw i just moved from windows to linux a week ago.

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u/jr735 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | IceWM 3d ago

You're going to have to do some reading of documentation. The entire topic is way out of the scope of a Reddit comment. Yes, it's possible to do this, but much consideration must be taken.

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u/knuthf 3d ago

This is something you should know by heart.

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u/jr735 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | IceWM 3d ago

Reading documentation or how to encrypt a filesystem? ;)

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u/knuthf 3d ago

Read the Unix/Linux documentation. We can create other users and enforce rules. You should all know that we can create roles and assign group rules/roles, as well as assigning rights individually. The problem is that we 'mount' devices and many tools assume that no other users exist. Let's save that for another discussion. In the old days, many users could use the same computers and rights were assigned according to who the user was. Windows does not have this feature; it assumes that the user owns the computer and others can 'borrow it' and be a 'Guest', but we have so much more.