Re: anyone used disk encryption & fingerprint id software?

hi all,

thanks for the replies. surprised the essence is to distrust the software
so much, altho we have all been bitten by software that doesnt work or work
right, i figured this would be something that the vendors did better being
that it is so critical.

im not doing anything super-secret just trying to avoid someone downloading
my bank info, or other private stuff. i have a firewall up but there still
is lots of stuff leaving my computer during the do going out to sites that i
have connections to or software from them 'touching base'. i am online 24X7
and am not sure how easy/hard it is to get to my computer but have a
suspicion that a determined hacker could get in via a trojan or something
and i would never know it.

i presumed that encrypting the drive would avoid having the data 'readable'
should they manage to get to it.

the fingerprint thing is a lazy man's way of trying to get a strong username
password combo without having to continually figure out and record (and
change often i guess if done right) them.

thanks again.

jim


"NobodyMan" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:54d291de6jmigd7dm22bemjitelnlbgirq@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 22 May 2005 14:12:35 -0400, "jim sturtz" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >i am thinking i would like to encrypt my harddrives to prevent anyone who
> >might manage to get on it from reading things.
> >
> >how severe of a performance hit does the system take having this
> >encrypt/decrypt happen on the fly?
> >
> >also using a fingerprint scanner to generate my username/passwords so
that
> >any offsite access is more confidential.
> >
> >how easy are these systems to use. for example my bank requires me to
put
> >in a username and password, does the scanner somehow create both of
these?
> >
> >how do they manage this in that often websites have a variety of schemes
for
> >how long the username or password is supposed to be.
> >
> >thanks for any info.
> >
> >jim
> >
>
> Unless you are protecting State level secrets I'd stay away from using
> encryption on your home data. It's just an accident waiting to
> happen.
>


.