Comments on: CyberNotes: Encrypt, Backup, and Recover Files on a USB Drive

By: Morten Nielsen

Morten Nielsen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:30:06 +0000

I imagine a tool with encrypyion and a “Lost & Found”-feature. This feature should work as follows: Once the password has been entered wrong 3 times the tool automatically sends me an email (from which ever email account i available) with the IP-address at which the USB-stick it is located. I know that sending an enail will not allways be possible, but in most cases the computer in which my USB-stick is situated will infact have email access. Such a feature would make it A LOT harder to steal my USB-stick and use it because I would know where it was once I got the email.

Does such a tool exist?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:59:36 +0000

Miles wrote:

I lost current msgs held in a temp file which would have been nice have as well as address book updates. Perhaps Recuva will restore those next time.

It definitely couldn't hurt to try. I'm guessing the drive itself didn't die, but you just lost the files some how? In that case there would be a good chance that it would be recoverable.

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Flash Memory ~Thumb drive advice - Page 2 - Tactical Gamer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:49:57 +0000

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By: Miles

Miles — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:30:09 +0000

A couple of years ago on a 6-week visit to Asia, my main thumb drive lost Thunderbird which of course, included the address book. What I had for backup was 2 smaller drives, one with Firefox & the other with Thunderbird. I lost current msgs held in a temp file which would have been nice have as well as address book updates. Perhaps Recuva will restore those next time.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:37:40 +0000

Also: TrueCrypt’s Traveler Mode where it can be used without being installed requries Administrator privileges. [truecrypt.org]

An alternative is Rohos Mini Drive – [rohos.com] that doesn’t require Admin privileges as described on their site.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:54:30 +0000

Good point Lappy! Thanks for the link.

By: Lappy

Lappy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:42:59 +0000

It is also worth noting that if you choose to use something like TrueCrypt (which is a great idea), you should be aware that there are security implications for the manner in which you choose to backup anything encrypted.

For more info see: [truecrypt.org]