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How paranoid are you about the privacy of the personal data you have on your computer's hard drive or any other digital storage? By personal data I mean addresses, account balance archives, e-mail archives, basicly all the data you wouldn't hand over to anyone. I noticed most of my friends and co-workers don't really care about the matter.
I keep all the data I consider personal encrypted. I use hard encryption only. I use open source encryption software only, so I can review the source code. The most sensitive data is encrypted with software written by me (also based on hard encryption algorithms) prior to being stored in the volumes encrypted with the said public open source software.
Of course, the computer's operating system is far from being perfectly safe, but by respecting a few rules, you can minimize the risk (keep the computer as virus and spyware free as possible, kill all suspect processes prior to data decryption, use a free space schredder to properly erase file contens, etc...).
Am I being paranoid ... enough?
Maybe. How about you?
I keep all the data I consider personal encrypted. I use hard encryption only. I use open source encryption software only, so I can review the source code. The most sensitive data is encrypted with software written by me (also based on hard encryption algorithms) prior to being stored in the volumes encrypted with the said public open source software.
Of course, the computer's operating system is far from being perfectly safe, but by respecting a few rules, you can minimize the risk (keep the computer as virus and spyware free as possible, kill all suspect processes prior to data decryption, use a free space schredder to properly erase file contens, etc...).
Am I being paranoid ... enough?
Maybe. How about you?