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- RSS14, on 08/14/2008, -2/+53TrueCrypt is seriously one the the best programs I have ever installed. Now I don't have to ***** bricks when someone uses my computer, in fear that they would find my collection of Japanese tentacle porn.
- ferrariman60, on 08/14/2008, -0/+29It's ok, we know you're not. :)
- Frozo, on 08/14/2008, -1/+27Too bad that when our grandchildren find our old USB drives, they will laugh at our primitive encryption......
......and then cry when they find out exactly what kind of perverts they were spawn from! ;) - MavRevMatt, on 08/14/2008, -2/+28This is even more important now that the DHS can hold your laptop. Just take whatever files you need, some portable apps, or even better Linux on a stick, and you can encrypt them. Or, put your data on the stick before you leave and just have a clean OS on your machine to get through security.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -2/+26It doesn't matter; it's none of airport security's business what's on my laptop.
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/14/2008, -3/+26A whale's vagina
- trueshadow21, on 08/14/2008, -1/+18rofl, do you have a separate 500GB drive for porn?
- ExRe, on 08/14/2008, -1/+17You can fit it all on a USB key?
Kinda hard when the biggest seems to be 32GB. :( - IRoaChI, on 08/14/2008, -1/+15are you really that naive that you don't?
- ferrariman60, on 08/14/2008, -1/+14Incredible
- hugolp, on 08/14/2008, -1/+14I dont want the security airport guys to see my naked girlfriend pics.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -1/+13Ew. Get some porn dude it's seriously cheaper then having a girlfriend.
- rittz, on 08/14/2008, -0/+9TrueCrypt matches up to most commercial software encryption programs. I've been using it for years, from encrypting server hard drives to encrypting USB drives. It is extremely flexible and I would recommend it to anyone, even someone who isn't computer savvy. Best of all, it's free. Probably my favorite feature is its option to encrypt a hidden volume, where it creates a decoy volume so if you are in a situation where you have to cooperate you can give the decoy volume's password instead of the actual volume containing the information you which to protect.
- breakaway, on 08/14/2008, -0/+9Do you store your flash drive up your ***** too?
- mrhedges, on 08/14/2008, -0/+8I *LOVE* TrueCrypt. I use it to transport mp3s and... personal info whenever I cross the border.
- trueshadow21, on 08/14/2008, -0/+7took me a second to follow you on that one
- Ebulating, on 08/14/2008, -0/+7The clever part is that TruCrypt fills the disk with random data, and the encrypted data is indistinguishable from the random data. The only way to know what is encrypted data and what is random data is by successfully decrypting it.
- schnikies79, on 08/14/2008, -0/+7I don't have anything personally on my computer worth encrypting, though I thought about using for all my school files from the 4 years of college.
I'm scared to death of forgetting the passwords way down the road though. :( - PainToad, on 08/14/2008, -3/+10I'll have to remember not to care what you do
- NuclearBlast, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6I don't think you "get" TrueCrypt: it's free and it is different than just encrypting your flash drive.
- mrhedges, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6Sponsored by a freeware? It's great software, and I've been using it for a long time.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5How is this paranoid? If anything, USB drives should be encrypted more so than your PC's becuase which is more likely to be lost/stolen? And I really don't get how keeping your data safe from thieves is being "paranoid."
- Laserdragon, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5@jchrome
Now, now... He might be married. He may need that pron. - dhughes, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5 I encrypted a USB drive so well even I can't access it anymore.
- contradictator, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5Well Rock Me Amadeus!
- SiL3Nt420, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5Sure, now the govt has announced that they can hold your computer hardware indefinately and for no reason when traveling internationally. Not to mention it helps if your ***** gets stolen or if you lose it.
- Muncher, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5Yeah, because there’s no way you could lose a thumbdrive. What kind of a crazy nutjob would think that?
- evanhatesspam, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4Encryption: protect the contents of computers even while in plain sight. Feel free to accidentally lose your thumb-drive or laptop, knowing that the sensitive contents are safe --- presuming you have chosen a REALLY strong password.
True Crypt is free, easy to use, uses the best, most vetted modern cryptographic algorithms, and is considered well written. Unlike some security products, it is not snake-oil. - trueshadow21, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4That is why I have a truecrypt volume that contains all the passwords for my other truecrypt volumes!
The only way this could end poorly is if I forgot the password to it or that volume got damaged. Thinking about that I should back it up. Although it is already backed up in another truecrypt volume, the password pertaining to which is stored in the other one though.
Ok, now I'm confused :S - phibit, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4You must be talking about AES encryption, because 256 bit--and even 512 and 660 bit -- RSA encryptions have already been broken.
Some people say the government is discouraging the advance towards quantum computers, because it will make their current encryption system look like a wall of graham crackers, and they're too lazy to figure out another way to encrypt their *****. - djdole, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4It lets you specify a password and size to format an encrypted file that you can mount as a drive on your system.
Files can then be encrypted by merely copying them to the mounted drive. - trueshadow21, on 08/14/2008, -1/+5I think he means all the positive comments and no flaming.
- t3rmv3locity, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4I've used truecrypt for a while now to encrypt sensitive files, and I highly recommend it. It's one of the best encryption tools I've used.
- Ebulating, on 08/14/2008, -2/+6256 bit encryption is gonna be safe for a loooooooooooong time barring fundamental breakthroughs in algorithms or quantum computers. 2^256 is about the number of atoms in the universe.
- JudgeMonkey, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Tentacle porn? That's it? I put that tame stuff in the top of my porn folder, so people won't keep going and find the REAL stuff.
- contradictator, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3I'm kinda worried that if we keep talking about it, they'll eventually wise up to it, and the governments will just start banning encryption or some such fascist nonsense.
- CVL4317, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3what you should do is ..
encrypt your whole porn with the keyfiles being encrypted into the USB which is drive-crypted - Ebulating, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3TruCrypt can use 3 of the latest and greatest encryption algos: AES, blowfish, and twofish. You can pick one of them or use all 3 in a cascade if you're really paranoid.
- neopherine, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Your Mama 10:08, last night!!
- neopherine, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3??
- judicar, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3You only have 40GB of porn?
- rittz, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3It's called a decoy. You can fill the decoy volume with files that are of no importance. There is no way of finding out that the volume is a hidden volume (if you have a brain, that is).
- stormofswords, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3just swallow that *****
- S68x, on 08/14/2008, -6/+9Funny thing is, I did that an hour before I saw this article. I ***** you not.
- ilistenisee, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3people really need to be more aware of their sensitive data/protection. A little/easy encryption will save a lot of pain if something happens- cheap insurance :)
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3"Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
1) Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data)." - leerayIG88, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3This morning I put my shoes on.
- Ebulating, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2The government may or may not be discouraging the public development of quantum computers, but I bet the NSA is trying really hard to develop one secretly. But the thing about Quantum Computers is that they are really, really, really hard to build large enough to be useful. The power of QCs is that n-Qbits can have 2^n total superpositions (basically holding every possible value of an n-bit string), but that's also there downside because it also becomes exponentially harder to keep more qbits in superposition.
But you don't seem to be aware that quantum encryption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_encryption) exists and is provably unbreakable, because if the info is intercepted before it gets to its intended recipient, then the quantum entanglement breaks and that is really, really, obvious. - D4CH, on 08/14/2008, -1/+3trueshadow21: I do :>
- Hurricane, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Read up on and think about Truecrypt's hidden operating system abilities.
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