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The Ubuntu VM's virtual hard disk is right there for the taking, though.

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Adversary profile precludes this vector.

I would like this as a bumper sticker/answering machine message.

>Ring....

>Ring...

[pickup]

>"Adversary profile precludes this vector"

[/hangup]

I use than SIP provider for all my telephone stuff, which gives me the ability to have menus etc.

I've now got one for "press one if you're calling me about an unbelievable sales opportunity" that gives the exact response. I have no idea if anybody has called it yet, but it's kept me laughing for the past three days!

Could you provide some details on how you set that up? It sounds interesting!

No problem, I first signed up for an account with SIP Centric[1], then once you've bought a phone number, you click on IVR menus in the sidebar and then it is point-and-click from there on; it really is surprisingly easy!

[1]: http://pbx.sipcentric.com/

I can't tell you how happy that makes me.

An encrypted home directory will help some with that.

That won't work since escapologybb can't type a password at the OS X lock screen.

encrypted home dir on the guest OS, not host.

Assuming you shut it down every time you walk away. AFAIK VirtualBox doesn't encrypt snapshots (which include RAM contents and therefore the encryption key).

OP could get at least get screensaver-lock functionality, but actual security in this situation is hard.

At least the Ubuntu VM can be password protected and encrypted, unlike OS X in this scenario, or am I missing some other issue?

Using a VM as the "real" machine seems to be at least as effective as any other suggestion made here and far less brittle.

You could use something like TrueCrypt to encrypt the vhd/vmdk(s). How aggressively you mount/unmount the volume depends on the circumstances.

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