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