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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 10

Password Software

Keeping track of all the different user accounts, passwords, security questions and emails associated with them is quite a daring task. Some users create all accounts with the same data, while others copy and paste the details into a text document. Then there is the group of users who write down passwords on paper, a [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Lockcrypt Password Safe

Where do you store your usernames and passwords ? In a text document on your computer ? In your wallet ? Storing sensible information like passwords, but also other type of data like information about medication or credit card numbers, unencrypted is a security risk. If someone is after those information he immediately knows how to use them against you.

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Categories: Security, Tools, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 27th, 2007
  • Comments: 3

Create a secure data safe with True Crypt

This article is going to show everyone, even the inexperienced, how to create a data safe that can store as much personal information and files as you want using the open source program True Crypt. True Crypt makes it very easy to encrypt almost every piece of hardware including partitions, hard drives, usb keys and other storage devices. Once everything is setup you would mount the True Crypt container using the password that you have selected while creating the encrypted container. This is actually the only password that you have to remember, everything else can be kept in the encrypted container for safety reasons.

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Categories: Linux, Operating Systems, Security, Windows

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