Two cool pices of software - Truecrypt & Double Twist

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:53 pm

I'm a bit of a TC fanboy so I'm delighted that version 5.0 now offers full disk encryption and I can take my laptop out without being paranoid about someone stealing it and getting all my private information.

Also I found Double Twist which will let you sync your iTunes songs to any device by converting them to MP3.

If you don't know what Truecrypt is, take a look at www.truecrypt.org

Also http://www.doubletwistventures.com | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7253542.stm

419Eater is my life Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 428

It's funny. I've always been more worried about someone online hacking my computer and stealing all my private data. That's why I have two firewalls and three antivirus programs on my computer. But I have minimal physical security. Typically, I have my computer on standby, and it doesn't require a password when it comes back. I used to use the bios password, and my login/root password was 39 characters long, but Mom/Dad needed to know the password so they could make sure I wasn't doing anything I wasn't supposed to be doing( Rolling Eyes

) and they didn't want to remember 39 chars so they made me take it off. I usually just take a flash drive to school anyway and leave my laptop at home. I trust most of the people in the area I frequent, so security isn't that much of an issue to me. I even store some stuff in the open on the network drive. Admittedly, it's not private data, but still.

TC looks interesting. I may use it if I do anything I shouldn't be.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:49 am

>.>

<.<

......iPods st*nk. Get a Zune.

Oh the encryption software sounds nice. Is it freeware, shareware, donationware, or nagware?

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Ex. wrote:

the encryption software sounds nice. Is it freeware, shareware, donationware, or nagware?

It is Open Source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:19 am

Gah, open source.......

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Ex. wrote:

Gah, open source.......

Gah? You have no idea of the Open Source concept, do you? Thats fine, keep running IE7, and have fun.

"Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur"

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:44 am

lol, I have plenty idea of the open source concept.

and I use Firefox tyvm.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:54 am

^^^ I would recommend a read of 'the cathedral and the bazaar'

might help. might not.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^^^ He uses Firefox, get off his back! Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:39 am

Truecrypt really is a nice tool. But I never use it.
As I work with Linux I prefer Cryptsetup-LUKS. It might be a bit harder to use (no GUI), but I prefer it anyway.
Also, is it possible to boot a "truecrypted" partition? I know it's quite easy when using Cryptsetup-LUKS, because it's based on the Device-Mapper in the kernel.

Anyway, neither my PC nor my notebook have an encrypted filesystem. But still I think most thieves won't be able to use my hard-drives. Not because their formatted with ext3, but because I'm using LVM.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:28 am

@hacker9: Having more than one AV installed will eat up resources and it can/will pull up false positives and they will interfere with each other. Also running more than one firewall could also interfere with each other, I did read something once that said running two firewalls side by side could less effective than having just one.

@rootuser: There is no way to boot an encrypted partition without using a password.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:47 am

^^ I know, that's the way it's done with Cryptsetup-LUKS, the question is if Truecrypt offers this.

419Eater is my life Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 428

You can boot a TrueCrypt-ed partition (see the documentation), you just need to give it the password.

And I'm using AVG, Avira, and Comodo, comodo being a combination firewall-antivirus, in addition to the default Windows Firewall. Avira got the highest rating of free antivirii, and I figure what it misses hopefully AVG will catch. I have plenty of resources.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:39 pm

Direct to download of the doubletwist software.

http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Download/Index.dt

/me is "liberating" his library as we speak.

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