Securing Your Files - Tips from Lifehacker
You’ve read the post about warrantless border checks for laptops, hardrives and other devices, at US and other borders.
How can you protect yourself?
Here’s a How-To on protecting your data from unwanted eyes. Excellent tutorial.
In short:
1. Use an ecryption utility to store your data safely - either on your hard drive, or on USB or elsewhere
2. Use a “safe-erase” utility when you delete your file
3. Save your encrypted data online (e.g. Amazon S3) and away from your laptop
