On Sunday 04 January 2009 16:46:25 Mike Cloaked wrote:
Anne Wilson-4 wrote:
Hmm - Is there no reasonably safe way of doing this? There seems to be some risk with everything. I've not lost a usb stick yet, but one can never guarantee that one won't.
By the way one can make an encrypted usbkey - I randomised a usbkey along the lines that mail-lists described, and made a luks encypted file system on it - and once done then plugging it in to F9 or F10 it asks for the passphrase (luks) and then mounts it - you then just use it like any other usbkey and umount it as normal - but if it does get lost it would be near impossible for someone to get at the contents! Anyone dealing with transferring sensitive data on a usbkey would be well advised to use this kind of technique - it would certainly reduce the risk in the classic publicised cases of "25 million account details lost when usbkey owned by bank manager is left on train seat" stories!
Thanks to all of you. You've certainly given me a lot to think about. BTW, Robert, a note detailing passwords etc. is stored with a copy of my Will :-) Just in case!
Anne