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Advantages of truecrypt?
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<blockquote data-quote="swstacker" data-source="post: 1312135" data-attributes="member: 186150"><p>Thanks for the replies. I have never used it but I was reading on truecrypt's webpage that the FBI seized a hard drive encrypted with their software and after over a year of trying they could not crack it. Being that it is a third party open source program it seems that it would be pretty thoroughly tested and that their are no backdoors. The built in Mac filevault does not really list any specifics about how secure it is. It may be great but I am always a bit paranoid about big companies as they usually have some sort of back way in to things and often hackers target them and create programs to defeat their products. I don't know if this is the case for filevault 2 or not. I do like how filevault 2 is already built into the OS and easy to use.</p><p></p><p>Specifically I travel a lot for work and while at work I use my computer constantly and it would literally cost thousands of dollars if lost even a days worth of data. Often I am on the road for weeks at a time staying in motels. I have a mobile office of sorts that I work out of. I would like to keep 3 external hard drives with backups on them. The idea being that all three are in separate places. One drive at home that is used when I am home but also is left there when I am gone and subject to burglary I guess when I am gone. A second drive I would keep in mobile office that backs up while I am at work during the day but stays in my mobile office at night and would be subject to theft then. The third drive I would leave in motel room at all times and backup at night to it. It would be subject to theft from my motel room during the day while I am at work. I have had my motel room burglarized in the past as well as my my mobile office attempted to be broken into. I just want to feel comfortable leaving these drives with all my data on them lying around unattended without worry of someone getting access to the data. I am not really worried about the drive getting stolen and losing a hundred bucks, I am more worried about the data, identity theft, etc. </p><p></p><p>I guess a simpler way of putting it is would you feel comfortable putting all your data on a few external hard drives encrypted with filevault2 and leaving them in a public place for anyone to pick up and try to read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swstacker, post: 1312135, member: 186150"] Thanks for the replies. I have never used it but I was reading on truecrypt's webpage that the FBI seized a hard drive encrypted with their software and after over a year of trying they could not crack it. Being that it is a third party open source program it seems that it would be pretty thoroughly tested and that their are no backdoors. The built in Mac filevault does not really list any specifics about how secure it is. It may be great but I am always a bit paranoid about big companies as they usually have some sort of back way in to things and often hackers target them and create programs to defeat their products. I don't know if this is the case for filevault 2 or not. I do like how filevault 2 is already built into the OS and easy to use. Specifically I travel a lot for work and while at work I use my computer constantly and it would literally cost thousands of dollars if lost even a days worth of data. Often I am on the road for weeks at a time staying in motels. I have a mobile office of sorts that I work out of. I would like to keep 3 external hard drives with backups on them. The idea being that all three are in separate places. One drive at home that is used when I am home but also is left there when I am gone and subject to burglary I guess when I am gone. A second drive I would keep in mobile office that backs up while I am at work during the day but stays in my mobile office at night and would be subject to theft then. The third drive I would leave in motel room at all times and backup at night to it. It would be subject to theft from my motel room during the day while I am at work. I have had my motel room burglarized in the past as well as my my mobile office attempted to be broken into. I just want to feel comfortable leaving these drives with all my data on them lying around unattended without worry of someone getting access to the data. I am not really worried about the drive getting stolen and losing a hundred bucks, I am more worried about the data, identity theft, etc. I guess a simpler way of putting it is would you feel comfortable putting all your data on a few external hard drives encrypted with filevault2 and leaving them in a public place for anyone to pick up and try to read. [/QUOTE]
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