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6 months back i had a schwinn disk brake $300 mountain bike. My dad was aligning the brake pads and he rode it around the block, came inside for 2 minutes to get a allen wrench and when he came back out it was gone. We called the cops and luckily they caught the guy trying to sell it to the bike shop down the street.
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Joined: Sun Sept 23 2007, 07:53PM
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Today in the morning, I came to my bike my back wheel was missing!!! Can you imagine that you destroy your back wheel and then you go and take it from someone else’s bike? Luckily I'm leaving Denmark in a month so I will survive without it.
Hey, are there any rules about the vulgar words on this blog? I have plenty of them on my mind
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Dr. GigaVolt wrote ...
Your best bet as stated by the last poster is to use data encryption. There are data encryption programs available that are practically impossible to crack. Some are very expensive, but again if your information is that sensitive, than its worth the investment. And also, the hard drive remains encrypted whenever removed from the computer, so back-ups are not a problem.
Tbh I wouldnt even consider closed source ("expensive") software for drive encryption. Truecrypt can do pre-boot encryption etc. and its open source so you can be fairly sure it doesnt contain any kind of backports.
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Obscenity: see rules part 1b
Data encryption: I don't bother, even for data associated with commercial projects. It's just another thing to go wrong or password to lose. You'd be surprised how easy it is to break these things anyway with social engineering (try "Buffy" or "Gandalf" for the password, and if that doesn't work, send a few agents round with baseball bats to extort all three TrueCrypt passwords)
Bike theft: I keep my bike collection inside, it prevents theft and the agents will trip over them in the hallway
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Back in the day Phil Zimmeman made PGP available via source in DOS\UNIX C and the gov't went ballistic. Today PGP is a commercial product and many people still go to the MIT web site and get version 5 & earlier.
But realistically I can't think of anything I would need to encrypt to such a degree. And the way things are now with super computers most anything can be brute forced open in hours; even 256 bit stuff.
The old standard was to think of a phrase like "Every good boy does fine" so as to remember the first letter of the phrase and add a random number unconnected with you (no birthdays!) so you end up with EGBDF4128 as a PW. It's easier to remember and it's nonsense. However today many encryption methods allow for the qwerty keyboard in total 255 ascii so you can use !@#$%^&*()_+ also.
The joke was encryption of the MBR or the (MFT today) as a way of keeping people out of the drive. THAT method was ruined by all the data recovery software that was made to respond to virus/Trojan corruption. Old versions of NT (like v.4) were very tough to get into. I would NOT trust MicroSoft to make safe encryption anymore as there have been too many conferences about the lack of safety in XP/Vista.
I once worked for a Title Company that moved from NT 3.51 to 4 and went to some of those conferences and there were some pretty fine minds finding unintended back doors. What was basic was saving material to ascii text files and encrypting those with something tougher than RSA.
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I hate thieves!
Luckily I'm leaving Denmark in a month so I will survive without it. 
