Lee, Do you know if Truecrypt would work with Retrospect?
What about EFI Open Firmware passwords? I can't find either addressed in the Truecrypt website 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
