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Posts from October 2006

More Key Goodness

(scraped from my LJ, excuse the formatting…)
I got my new 4 GB USB drive in the mail yesterday and have it set up. Now I can goof off at work leaving absolutely no trace! I used TrueCrypt to create 3.9 GB encrypted file using AES-256 encryption, I used some auto-run tricks to [...]


Changing the way I organize myself

More key-drive goodness:
I’m using pstart, a nice program for organizing applications on a key-drive. with pstart, I can drag and drop icons into hierarchical folders, and launch it from my system tray.
Since using a Blackberry, my home copy of Outlook is lying fallow - I don’t have a means to do 3-way sync between two [...]


More Key goodness

I bought a 4 gigabyte key drive, and am waiting for it to arrive. New cool key app of the day:
ChrisControl is a nice little app. Give it a hostname that you have domain admin priveliges on. It’ll try Remote Desktop, VNC, and if all else fails, install a temporary copy of VNC that it [...]


Key drives and network security

I’m running most of my applications and storing sensitive data on an encrypted 1GB USB key drive. Benefits of this include:

No longer having to worry about carrying sensitive data — I have dozens, if not hundreds of passwords for companies saved. Losing them would be a huge issue. With an encrypted volume on the key [...]