You could encrypt your boot partition as well as the others. ahem... A "friend" of mine does this and he sure looks silly decrypting the laptop 2 times upon tur

You could encrypt your boot partition as well as the others. ahem... A "friend" of mine does this and he sure looks silly decrypting the laptop 2 times upon turning it on! Of course, this approach only solves the biggest problem when your device is stolen (your data won't be easily accessible, if at all really). But I wager this friend of mine recognises that as the only thing that has any actual value in there. There are ton of devices out there.