[ale] 26G to backup

[Richard Bronosky]

I was just telling my dad about this last night. My favorite trick for
protecting yourself from data theft (or confiscation) is to wire an
internal USB header into the unused pins of your ethernet port and
hide a USB drive in your wall below the ethernet socket. By the time
someone takes your computer away and then realizes what you have done,
you will have had a chance to relocate the drive.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:53 AM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The big headache is the time required to maintain the integrity of the data.
>> As was pointed out earlier, encryption is a problem looking to happen. Save
>> yourself the headache and buy a data safe instead and park the archives
>> there. Unless the data is clearance level stuff now and already stored
>> encrypted, don't bother. If the media is stolen, the encryption WILL be
>> cracked so it only make the maintenance cycle worse.
>
> I've got to disagree here.  The most likely scenario for a theft of
> your drives is a common house burglar.  They might plug a hard drive
> in or see whats on a DVD, but they're certainly not going to break
> encryption.  I have plenty of data I don't want anyone perusing
> (mostly financial data -- 1040s, W2s, paystubs, etc.) and LUKS
> encryption on the hard drives my backups reside on should be plenty to
> deter "casual" snooping if the drive gets stolen.
>
> Plus, if the drive is encrypted and later fails, you don't have to
> worry about whether there's some data that's still recoverable, etc.
>
> The only entities with the resources to break any currently decent
> cryptosystem (e.g., 128-bit AES) are large corporations and
> governments, and they'll just use the WRENCH method for decryption:
> http://xkcd.com/538/
>
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