If you do not want to end like British government officials who lose USB devices with unencrypted data in front of pubs you might want to consider encrypting the data so that it cannot be recovered if the USB device would be lost. It is not entirely true that the data cannot be recovered but [...]
True Crypt 6.1 Released
One of the very first articles that was published here at Ghacks was an article about securing a computer with True Crypt. The True Crypt developers have made several interesting changes both to the functionality of the hard drive encryption software but also to the speed and performance of it.
Version 6.1 of True Crypt [...]

