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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:25 pm 
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Can you spell Oliver North? Even Microsoft themselves have been beaten by the exchange cloud. Once the information hit the internet waves is everywhere. Also, you are paying a penalty for speed, and mongers are not known to be very patience. Even those in the security business realize that privacy is just a selling point and not an achievable goal.

My whole point is that not be too concern about what the government or other agencies can do. You and I do not have the tools to prevent them from peaking under the hood. Even those paranoid souls that take the time to change their encryption keys on a regular base are losing that battle. I always tell my customers that Security is a balancing act, either way that you move the needle to increase or decrease security, there is a cost associated with it. Which way you pay the bill is up to you.


Never claimed it to be infallible, rather an added layer to the onion – my assumption is a rather sophomoric one; “if it’s on a hard drive be it internal, external, or exchange then the government has access to it”.

Personally I have not one thing to worry about, for if some fat phuck wants to watch me popping some hot thirty year old Colombian chick in the ass wearing a nurses outfit while eating cheetos and drinking pepsi in some dank office than so be it.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:42 am 
I can do CR without a wingman!
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I enter foreign countries about 36-37 times a year. Will be visiting SJO for the 9th time this year on Saturday.

I like the Maxtor 320 GB Diamondmax hardware-encrypted external HD. Not perfect but it's cheap (<$100) and with a secure password it's reasonably secure.

BTW -- never had an issue in any country except Colombia. There they noticed the laptop had been opened & after I told them I had to have it repaired by the dealer they were happy. No problems in the US entering through IAH, LAX, ATL or MIA, though I do everything I can to avoid MIA and AA in general. And more recently I've been avoiding DL & therefore ATL.

/Dan D.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:36 am 
I can do CR without a wingman!
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As I travel single most of the time, I have been "singled" out many times with "please start your computer", "please show me your camera pics", and a couple of please enter the "sniffing booth" where you feel the air blow on you in little blasts to sniff for explosives or drugs. Usually its no more of a pain in the ass.

I really don't worry though as I have an encrypted "hidden" drive that only takes up 100mb or so of a 160gb hard drive. Can it be found or decrypted?? Of course, but NOT very easily as it is encrypted with with 25 letters, numbers, and symbols and, it would take a long time if indeed they even found it all. It truly is hidden except to very highly knowledgeable people.

First you have to know its there, and then breaking it is even more difficult. By no means is it perfect, but it is much, much, more secure and so far, it has drawn no ones attention. The women are all older than 20, but why tempt fate? The suggestion that you get a copy of the girls ID is a very good one, but I think would be impractical at times. just my dos colones.

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Not only can I spell "Oliver North", I have a bucket of spit for him should he ever come near me. The man was a disgrace to the uniform.

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