Notebooks are very popular
amongst thieves. You may think that becuase you have a user password to log
onto your notebook that your data is safe. Not so. 20 minutes and a cup of
coffee and your notebook hard drive is an open book to a 13 year old with just a
small amount of IT knowledge. The key concept is that even though your notebook
has a log on, by taking out the hard drive and connecting it to another computer
access to the data on that hard drive is just a click away.
The answer is to have a
program that encrypts the hard drive. You will typically have an added pass
phrase to start the computer, then your normal log on is required. But the
encrypted hard drive cant be read by any other computer, and the encryption
can't be cracked by anyone - ever. I use Truecrypt myself (www.truecrypt.org) although versions of
Windows come with BitLocker (which does the same thing), or utilities in
notebooks that also do the same thing.
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