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!