Comments on: Computer Security Passwords http://obscuremania.com/compute-security-passwords/ Computers, Gadgets, Grilling, Politics and Anything Else I can think of Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ken http://obscuremania.com/compute-security-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Ken Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:44:25 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/?p=1438#comment-377 Crap sorry, didn't mean to say they have "free" disk encryption. It is not free. TrueCrypt is great too, especially for external drives and flash drives. Crap sorry, didn’t mean to say they have “free” disk encryption. It is not free. TrueCrypt is great too, especially for external drives and flash drives.

]]> By: Ken http://obscuremania.com/compute-security-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Ken Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:43:04 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/?p=1438#comment-376 You may want to look at Checkpoint, although not free, they have free disk encryption for Mac and PC, the nice thing is it encrypts in the background, so you don't have to wait for the full drive to encrypt itself. You may want to look at Checkpoint, although not free, they have free disk encryption for Mac and PC, the nice thing is it encrypts in the background, so you don’t have to wait for the full drive to encrypt itself.

]]> By: Wayne http://obscuremania.com/compute-security-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Wayne Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:20:34 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/?p=1438#comment-300 The bios backdoors that are listed, may or may not be right and it takes a lot of work to bypass any other way. Drive encryption is probably the best, the situation in the video was in a lab in perfect conditions, plus the utility Princeton used can't be easily found. Most thieves are going to drop your pc and go looking for something easier or use the stolen laptop for parts. Your laptop is gone, but at least your personal information is still most likely secure. The bios backdoors that are listed, may or may not be right and it takes a lot of work to bypass any other way.

Drive encryption is probably the best, the situation in the video was in a lab in perfect conditions, plus the utility Princeton used can’t be easily found.

Most thieves are going to drop your pc and go looking for something easier or use the stolen laptop for parts. Your laptop is gone, but at least your personal information is still most likely secure.

]]> By: John http://obscuremania.com/compute-security-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-310 John Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:58:18 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/?p=1438#comment-310 So if everything can be cracked, what's the answer? So if everything can be cracked, what’s the answer?

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