Thanks so much Lee, I so want to be well protected, including theft of the hard drives. This TrueCrypt looks great on first blush, I'll check it in detail later tonight.
John On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Profile showed healthy paranoia: > >> I am always anxious to hear Lee's discussions on how to protect our >> computers from prying eyes and identify theft. I also am paranoid >> about backing up everything and have three different backup systems. > > You asked for it, so here it is. I'm pretty careful about such things. > > In my office, the stuff I fret about losing is backed up to a > departmental server which in turn is backed up to tape every evening. > > At home, most of my personal stuff is stored in my keychain and > Yojimbo. These are encrypted and backed up to my iDisk more or less > continuously. Financial records are there also--password protected > with encryption from Moneydance. > > I use IMAPs exclusively for mail, so none of it is stored locally. I > figure the ISPs back up their stuff pretty well and this saves me > the trouble of doing it. This has the added bonus that all my mail > is accessible wherever I go from whatever machine I happen to be > using. > > Data is backed up to a nice little LaCie network drive that I picked > up really cheaply a while back when they were discontinuing the > older models. The little bit that I really can't stand to be without > for a few days is also mirrored on the iDisk. (The iDisk is also a > great place to put files that might be worked on in more than one > place because the cloud is everywhere.) > >> Here is another potential problem that I am wondering if there is a >> solution. Since I have so many firewire drives hanging off my main >> computer and one firewire drive on each of the other computers it >> would really be easy for someone to simply unplug one and walk off. > > TrueCrypt. It works fine with SuperDuper, but you have to jump > through some hoops to get it working with Time Machine. > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be February 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be February 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
