Pictures of your adoring boyfriend, a copy of any Denise Richards movie of your choosing and the soundtrack to Sweating to the Oldies volumes 1, 3 and 4.
Fantastic ideas. I need some sort of auto-run dilly that will allow me to take over friends' machines and install Knoppix or something. They'd never forgive me. :)
Question: security bomb that protects my data in case of theft. Any experience in this area?
You could store the data in an encrypted file system that can only be opened w/ the proper password. I would drop GPG for Windows on the device and then encrypt the sensitive stuff with that. The down side is that you have to have your secret key available to GPG somehow. If your secret key is lost, then all hell breaks loose.
The other option is a reactive security / archive program that has to be executed in order extract the data from it. The program would be set up to bring up some sort of inconspicous dialog that appears to be a non-working utility. Only the owner nows how to manipulate that dialog to extract the data. The problem here is that it's OS specific. A script language might get around that, though.
Of course, there's no such thing as absolute security. The best you can do is raise the wall higher than most people can climb.
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Date: 2003-10-17 12:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-17 03:32 pm (UTC)As all Unix geeks know, tools to save your Windows friends from their own peril:
(slaps forehead)
Date: 2003-10-17 04:44 pm (UTC)Question: security bomb that protects my data in case of theft. Any experience in this area?
Re: (slaps forehead)
Date: 2003-10-17 04:59 pm (UTC)You could store the data in an encrypted file system that can only be opened w/ the proper password. I would drop GPG for Windows on the device and then encrypt the sensitive stuff with that. The down side is that you have to have your secret key available to GPG somehow. If your secret key is lost, then all hell breaks loose.
The other option is a reactive security / archive program that has to be executed in order extract the data from it. The program would be set up to bring up some sort of inconspicous dialog that appears to be a non-working utility. Only the owner nows how to manipulate that dialog to extract the data. The problem here is that it's OS specific. A script language might get around that, though.
Of course, there's no such thing as absolute security. The best you can do is raise the wall higher than most people can climb.