I found out about this earlier this week and have jumped in with both feet and so far i like what i've seen, so much so I've ordered a 4gb usb stick for 1 of my colleges to use. But, i have a few questions.
I'm surprised there's no security options. From what i've been able to find it seems like there are a few app to secure files but i would like to secure the whole stick. Any ideas as to how i can.
Secondly, Opera-usb. I like opera and thought i'd give it a try and copied it to /PortableApps/opera902en, refreashed the app icons. The first thing i noticed was it included 2 icons. One for GSAR and another for Opera startup. Clicking on the opera start icon results in a command window that points to the usb stick drive letter and stops with "The same position, nothin to do" and an alert box saying it can't find op.com. Opera does work if i go to the disk and double click the operausb.exe
Thanks in advance
David
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This is more of a general issue. You have options:
1. Secure the entire drive with a software encryption tool. There are free ones, like TrueCrypt, that do this... but they require admin rights to run. There are some paid ones, including the ones included with some drives, that do not require admin rights.
2. Get a drive with hardware encryption that encrypts the whole drive. These will be a bit more expensive... and you should be sure their utility works without admin rights as well.
It's important to note that encryption and "password protection" are *NOT* the same thing. Not at all. Most drives that claim to be "secured" by a password but not encryption are not really secure. They use what's known as "security by obscurity" and all of em I've seen are fairly easy to get the data out without knowing the password.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
ok, thanks for those points. So, the way forward seems to be to create a secure folder on the usb stick and keep data in that folder.
Are there any recomendations as to what to use. I guess the admin access could be a big issues, though not insurmountable.
Cheers
David