Morning folks. Fogive me if this has been asked before, I looked, didn't find.
I'm heading through Indonesia for a month and have a camera with a sony memory stick pro duo and a MS>USB adapter.
Can I (and would it be advisable) to use the same memory stick for my email/internet as for my camera? Will it increase the chances of corrupting pictures or infecting it with viruses. Will it decrease my chance of having some keylogger/spyware/virus on the obviously infected internet cafe computer from killing my photos or snooping my bank password if I need to use it? Any suggestions on what to do, where to look, ideas on how to go about this and/or make my life more safe and secure in general?
Thanks a million guys n gals
Justin
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install as much anti-spyware and security stuff as I could.
Also, you might want to encrypt your drive.
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Ryan McCue
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any specific suggestions for "security stuff" and how I should use them (i.e. they run in the background, need to be run as soon as I plug in, when I am ready to unplug etc)?
Would encrypting the drive cause problems when I use the stick in the camera? wont it mess with the camera's using of the drive...I assume the camera cant access an encrypted drive or read encrypted photos...what encryption sofware is good?
Thanks Ryan.
the Security category at Portable Freeware.
In particular, CCleaner.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
(Tom Lehrer)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Certainly encrypt your passwords
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net is great. It's memory stick friendly out of the box. If you fire up Portable Firefox first you can go to an entry in passwordsafe, then feed login details to the website without typing. Nothing's 100% secure but it stops keyloggers and over-the-shoulder people or cameras.
Peter B
Peter B
"Just because you paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get you"
What happens if I lose my memory stick (or it gets stolen which is a distinct possibility where I will be) and someone plugs it in...wont they then have access to all my stuff that needs a password? I've always been wary of saving passwords because of this reason....especially on a portable platform.
Would adding an OS that runs inside windows help with the paranoia? will this stop keyloggers and other viruses or would the windows crap still grab me?
Thanks Peter
The only secure solution is to encrypt stuff. Setting a Master Password in Firefox and Thunderbird encrypts your saved passwords within them. Storing other passwords in something like Keepass (which uses military-grade encryption to keep everything in it safe) is a good idea. Password-protecting office files works well (in later versions of products, they switched to encryption rather than just "locking" the file". You can also use something like EncryptOnClick to encrypt individual files.
The best bet is to encrypt the whole drive. TrueCrypt is a free way of doing that but it requires admin rights. Some drives come with whole drive encryption and a utility that doesn't require admin rights to access it (like the Kingston Data Traveller Secure, for instance). If something "password protects" your files but does not state that it encrypts the whole drive, don't bother with it as it can be bypassed.
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Thanks John, Still worried about the drive functioning in the camera if I encrypt it (dont understand encryption enough to know if it will work or not)
Anyone have any ideas on that?
If you encrypt the entire drive, it simply won't work in the camera.
If you create an encrypted drive that takes up about 1/2 the memory card, the camera can still use the other 1/2.
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so, create a partition on the memory stick?
would I use a a simple partition software for that or is there a certain prog to use...do I risk screwing up my fancy new stick?
When you say "admin rights" do you mean on every host computer I use or just the one used to set it up
I know this isnt really the right place to be asking these questions, if you know of somewhere else for me to look I'd be happy to bug someone else
In the mean time, thanks a million for the answers.
Justin
It's not really a partition with something like TrueCrypt. It's a single big file that TrueCrypt makes appear as another drive. And yes, as stated many times in the forums, TrueCrypt requires admin rights on every PC you use... so it is NOT an option for traveling.
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thanks john, I really appreciate the help