AVetter

Do you believe that your data is secure only because you have encrypted you harddrive?

Please visit http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ to see your data is not really secure and that everybody has access to your files if he/she has direct access to your notebook or computer.

While your computer is running the key is stored in the memory and the attacker can backup the data from the memory to a external usb harddrive (ram2usb). The status running is even if your user is logged out of the windows but you entered the encryption key before.

Now a days you have to be careful to send your mails around the world totally unsigned and unencrypted. Not only the bad terrorists or hackers are reading your mail but also every police on this earth. To be sure that only the authorized person can read the message you can use pgp to encrypt the message. Another advantage is that you can sign the message so that the person who receives it can be sure that this mail is yours and it wasn’t modified.

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