Most effective way to lock down & protect privacy on/off
August 6th, 2016
I’ve heard of true crypt but yet to use encryption software, I’m also wondering of other methods to secure and to protect my privacy both offline and online. I use web browser lastpass which I plan to use the generated secure password feature to set unique 25 character passwords on every site including email clients.
This is just for reassurance and peace of mind, I don’t have incriminating, illegal material or anything of worth to protect as such but I spend a hugh amount of time online and would like to tighten my privacy but also to protect privacy offline and prevent unauthorized access to PC / hard drives. I’ve had multiple hard drive failures recently and refused to return them to Western Digital as they refurbish them and wanted to protect my data.. If I use hard disk encryption and my hard drive fails can I safely return back to WD with peace of mind ?
I’m usually permanently signed in to Google as I browse utube a lot (I found Google records every website visit dated with time and date stamps) which I’m able to access back to 2011 It also apparently lets me delete and disable that setting but will still record from IP address
Drives:
120GB Corsair Force Series SSD (Operating System) C:/ & D:/
2TB Caviar Green Western Digital (Personal Files) E:/
2TB Caviar Green Western Digital (Backup) F:/
2x2TB WD My Book Live (4TB) Network Attached Storage Device configured as Raid 1 for storage and backup
I have aprox 600GB of media (Movies, Music and some Porn) and 600GB of desktop dancer girls VirtuaGirl HD which I might delete due to it’s size and I don’t actually use.
Software: Acronis Trueimage, Faronics Deep Freeze Standard, Lastpass, Truecrypt. No VPN at present not sure if it’s worth having a paid product will it slow streaming and downloads down ? I have 14Meg (1.4MB/Sec) downstream
Encryption will probably be overkill for home use it depends on what you are trying to protect.
As for the issue with online metadata “content filtering” is the only solution to that even if you use a vpn that just changes your ip address not the metadata being generated.
Encryption will probably be overkill for home use it depends on what you are trying to protect.
As for the issue with online metadata "content filtering" is the only solution to that even if you use a vpn that just changes your ip address not the metadata being generated.
Protect from unauthorized access and generally just peace of mind. I want to utilize disk encryption so the next time my hard drive fails under warranty I can ship it back without worry about my personal data or just dispose off without having to smash it (I have 4 disk drives laying around on my bedroom floor) which I need to dispose off which I don’t like the idea of smashing them up but want to protect my data.
I just want some privacy. I’ve been online for 8 years so they probably already know a ton of stuff already but never to late to learn right ? I figure it’s pointless encrypting disks if most my private stuff is online. I online bank, shop and soon to grocery shop a lot of my personal information being assigned & tied to my aliases kind of defeats having them