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techradar.com — Protect yourself with this essential, portable security toolkit.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 7, 2009

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  • Pinkertinkle, on 07/07/2009, -2/+21most people dont have anything worth hacking
  • freshgrease, on 07/07/2009, -0/+16If you can get TrueCrypt to work off of a flash drive, skip the first one. Save yourself the $25 and buy the actual flash drive. There are a few nifty features on Rohos, but most people won't need them.
  • walruspanzer, on 07/07/2009, -4/+16Linux?
  • inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+10TrueCrypt.
  • MWeather, on 07/07/2009, -0/+10You might not have a bank account, but most people do.
  • BxBoy, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8In other words, run everything Portable.

    http://www.portableapps.com
  • MWeather, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4Why not just run Linux from the USB stick? It's got the same programs as in the guide, and more security. I'm not scanning every computer I use for viruses before using it.
  • ptFoe, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4no Windows ME
  • theymos, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4Instead of Rohos Mini Drive, use Truecrypt, which is free (in both senses), well-tested, and full of additional security features. Instead of LastPass, use PasswordMaker, which has many more options and a number of non-firefox versions for when you're not using your version of Firefox. Eraser is very buggy and will cause errors in your filesystem; use CyberShredder instead.
  • neFariou5, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Inaccurate and misleading title. Using portable software won't protect you from man in the middle attacks on public computers or hand-crafted malware sniffing passwords credit card info.
  • pwr4, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Who's got the time to check for malware every time you want to use an unknown computer?

    Ironkey keeps the system completely encrypted until you log into the drive, independently from the OS, but even the CEO of Ironkey admitted on SecurityNow last year that their product cannot prevent infection if the local pc is infected.

    http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-135.htm
  • MWeather, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Come on, it's much more convenient scanning the PC for infections before use than booting into your Linux USB stick and using the same exact same programs securely.
  • Giac, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2This basically proves how ultimate versions of vista/7 are just not worth it: you can get apps similar to bitlocker for free
  • MWeather, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Thankfully, there is a Linux version of the IronKey.
  • shinkou, on 07/07/2009, -7/+8Use Linux, stupid!
  • AdamPatterson, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2They know all they need to know already.
  • inactive, on 07/07/2009, -2/+3Doesn't ClamWin have a crappy detection rate? I'm sure their must be better portable, free AVs out there
  • stotty, on 08/04/2009, -0/+1TrueCrypt and TrueCrypt portable require admin privileges as it needs to load a driver to work. This is no good if need to use PCs where you might not have enough rights. I would prefer to have a hidden partition that I didn't need admin rights to access and then use TrueCrypt for anything particularly sensitive.
  • neFariou5, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Yeah, this whole article seems to be written by someone that just discovered portableapps.com.

    It's a great site but from the title I expected secure practises or something a bit more revolutionary than software reviews of a fairly popular software website.
  • Xlr8ed, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Those apps do not in any way "secure" you. You are still on an unknown system. You can write a small batch file or shell scripts that copies any new or accessed file opened directly from memory, to a spot on the hard drive. If the machine you are plugging the USB drive is not under your control, it's insecure. As for the IronKey's, that only protects your data AT REST, not when you plug it into the Spyware 2000 computer your friend hasn't updated in 4 years. You are still using the computers subsystem which leave you vulnerable

    I hate when "reporters" think they are security people.
  • googooly, on 07/07/2009, -3/+1http://johnwilker.com/j/UserFiles/Image/pcmaclinux ...
  • inactive, on 07/07/2009, -5/+1*sigh*

    There's one in every crowd.
  • dumaitbjimmy, on 07/07/2009, -11/+5I like turtles.

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