georgie24 said:
mr x do you suggest starting with a fresh hard drive when obtaining these devices?
that would be the utopian way

but, for most, it's hard to just fresh install, so you can just create a large partition on your HD, cut and paste folders and files into it, the BC wipe your drive with DOD (department of defense) 7 run deletion process.
For example, on one of my computers, I have an 80GB HD and 60GB are in an encrypted partition while the rest are open; when I save files they go into the partition and anything I open/add/save etc... go into the partition. Then I do BC wipes of my HD daily and when I delete a file it's ONLY with BC wiping and DOD rewrite.
For MAXIMUM security, I double encrypt file; sometimes I'll use ABI coder to password protect a file in my encrypted partition...therefore, logically it would take the fastest computer in the world about 1,000,000 years to hack both of those (and that's a rough estimate I've read). No ONE, to this day has been able to hack blowfish (1344 bit) encryption, even with a $100,000 prize!
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Q: Has the DriveCrypt encryption ever been broken/hacked?
A: No! In the past, we have also launched several contests offering up to 100,000 US$ for the first person able to open a DriveCrypt encrypted disk…
Nobody succeeded! (See our press section for more details)
http://www.securstar.com/faq_drivecrypt.php
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Also, before I finish off, I suggest everyone has 3 things (minimal) on their computer: 1) an ANTI-VIRUS - yes, the FBI does have a software that's alike carnivore but used in infecting computer with trojans, I don't recall the name right now. 2) anti-adware, go to
www.download.com and type in adaware, that's what you want, keep it updated and it will keep malware off the computer too....Last, 3) FIREWALL, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, DO NOT SURF THE INTERNET WITHOUT ONE! I for one use 2 firewalls, hardware and software, I have a linux box as a hardware firewall and use a software firewall on the specific computers.
Stay safe!
Mr.X