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chalkies_shorts

« on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:51:38 »

I'm gonig to be buying a new laptop for work but it needs to be encrypted - not for porn but just sensitive data. Does anyone know anything about this? I don't want to encrypt each file or folder - basically the whole PC and the option to encrypt outgoing e mail attachments. So, in effect if I get pissed and leave the laptop somewhere its useless to anyone else.
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« Reply #1 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:52:13 »

Won't your employer provide the software?
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« Reply #2 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:58:19 »

Good question but no - setting up on my own.
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« Reply #3 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 13:59:41 »

We have McAfee Endpoint Encryption at work. It just gives you an extra login screen when your computer starts up.
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 14:07:32 »

You could use TrueCrypt, it's free.
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 14:55:26 »

I just finished a project rolling out TrueCrypt to the 200 odd laptop users this company has... Great bit of software
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« Reply #6 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 15:40:29 »

yeah I also use truecrypt
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« Reply #7 on: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 16:01:30 »

Thanks, I'll look it up and free is a good bonus.
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« Reply #8 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 13:35:41 »

For extra security, password protect booting and the bios.
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« Reply #9 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 21:22:26 »

How?
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« Reply #10 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 22:55:44 »

Go into your bios set-up on start-up, normally del or f2 i believe, then you can set up those passwords in there.
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 08:04:14 »

How?

When you do system encryption with truecrypt, you get forced to create a pre-boot password
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