Securing Data on Flash Drives
March 3, 2008 Posted by James Oliver
Many of us don’t even think about the security of data that we store on our flash drives. They’ve become cheap enough that if we lose it, we just replace them. At least I do.
However, what happens when you put sensitive data on your flash drive and it falls out or your pocket, you leave it in a public computer on accident, you leave it in a friends computer.
I’d like to mention a free method of encrypting the data on your flash drive so that it’s rendered useless to others. Check out TrueCrypt for an encryption process for your flash drives. Not only does it encrypt your flash drives, but you can encrypt your operating system drive as well. You can also encrypt individual files.
They have a section on their website that gives you a beginners tutorial.
Hope you find this helpful.
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