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Protecting important files with TrueCrypt

06-Feb-08

… but sometimes you want to protect your key files as well, either on your system drive, an external hard drive, or a USB thumb drive.

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A cow’s eye view of airport security

03-Feb-08

If you travel frequently by air, I think you’ll understand where I’m coming from. Originally posted 15 May 2003.
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Moo, moo…..
That’s how I felt earlier this week going through security at Newark airport. I was recently re-reading parts of Thinking In Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life [...]

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How paranoid, er, security conscious, are you?

03-Jan-08

I originally posted the following in October 2005 and thought it would be a nice follow-up to my recent post Information wants to be free, but you still need to protect it.
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Just as there is a fine line between genius and madness, there is a fine line between appropriate security [...]

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Information wants to be free, but you still need to protect it

11-Dec-07

But the loss of the information not only hinders your ability to do your work, it potentially puts your information, your competitive advantage, in the hands of the “wrong” people. In How to Secure your Computer, Disk, and Portable Drives, security expert Bruce Schneier gives some advice on how to prevent this from happening:

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