I was wondering if there are some for sale that are at least 500GB and not a thumb drive and not too expensive?
Any Portable/External Hard Drive with Encryption/Password Protection?
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I've been looking at these, but they are quite expensive. Might be worth it to you?
http://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Padlock-256-bit-External-A25-…do you have admin rights to the computers?
Thanks, I will look into both to decide which one to get.
that item above looks pricey, buy this case http://www.dx.com/p/cheerlink-hua001-su3-padlock-256aes-encr… from DX and add a spare laptop drive and you get the same 256bit AES hardware encryption security with USB 3.0 but for less, i bought one just waiting for delivery
This is very interesting. Please post here a review once you. Receive the item.
sure but remember this is DX so delivery is anywhere from 3 weeks to 2 months!
What happens if the AFP removes the hard drive from this enclosure and connect it to another PC, would they be able to read the hard drive?
Another thing, I tried finding the website of this company 'Cheerlink' but could not find it, not even the manual, so beware could be just a cheap Chinese knock-off… but I'll wait for you review eagerly.Are you a spy?
Though from what I've heard from people in Korea that Korean police can recover data that most comercial programs wouldn't be able to do i.e. after zero-fill etc etc. If the government wants their hands on your data, you probably would need something above something comercial grade, though this is simply my opinion and I am no way competent enough to give you conclusive answers.
this is hardware encryption, everything including FAT is encrypted so if you remove drive it will be unreadable, however being consumer grade means even the almighty N S of A probably has a backdoor or hack of some kind, the companies that make these devices say if you forget your P/W even they can't help you but something tells me they just want to avoid getting sued for loss of data or to discourage crims from using their product
Just get any hard drive and use third party software.
If you're just mildly paranoid, you could try things like bitlocker, or various alternatives;
http://www.alternativeto.net/software/windows-bitlocker/If you're feeling really paranoid, read this;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
There are various tools there. Julian Assange (wikileaks) helped write rubberhose but it's now defunct.
Never personally used any of this myself (though I could be just denying it!) but the theory of stuff like rubberhose seems solid.
Long live the NSA and mass surveillance!
What about this one http://www.onlinecomputer.com.au/product_info.php?products_i…
Edit: Heres a review http://au.pcmag.com/hard-drive-reviews/6129/review/lenovo-th…
Cheers Twodogs