Setting up encrypted My Documents with TrueCrypt.
think: business data security.
There are several good howtos, but I will put another one for my friends an neighbors.
Why?
I worked for two unrelated companies in Poland, and both of them suffered from laptop theft and confidential data loss. Both times it was a theft during normal working hours. In first case CEO's laptop, in second case two laptops of high managers. (disclaimer: both incidents happened quite long time ago, and I'm not making the news, and I don't have any more details)
The tools for protection are easy as <put your favourite here>, but still many people do not use it.
Install TrueCrypt.
(easy. get installer from here).
Create volume
Login to your account.
Create volume from TrueCrypt GUI or with "C:\Program Files\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt Format.exe".
- Choose default "create encrypted file container".
- Choose default "standard truecrypt volume".
- Choose file location; I'd recommend "C:\Documents and Settings\YourUser\my_documents.tc" (or C:\Users\YourUser\my_documents.tc, or wherever the profile is).
- Choose default encryption / hashing algorithms unless you really know the difference.
- Choose volume size; remember that: (a) all space will be preallocated, (b) it's not possible to resize existing partition.
- Choose passsword, you can use keyfile/smartcard/token for auth too.
- Choose a filesystem, NTFS is ok. Do not use Dynamic (sparse file) because such volumes are slower and unsecure.
- Click Format.
- Never forget the password.
- Never write down the password.
Add mounting your new volume to your startup
Go to your Startup folder (it's "Menu Start\Programs\Startup")
You can do this either of two ways:
- with Windows shortcut (screenshot here)
- or with mount_my_docs.cmd batch:
@echo off REM automount encrypted vol for disk X: "c:\Program Files\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe" /v my_documents.tc /lX /a /q
Now, test the batch/shortcut by double clicking it.
Next, test the shortcut by logging out and back in.
Relocate your sensitive data into encrypted volume
Right Click My Documents, choose Properties and change location.
When you click OK, it will offer to move all files - probably you want to say Yes.
From now on, keep sensitive data inside My Documents (X: drive).
That's it!
Simple and a lot more secure than running with laptop full of business data.
Code Kata
Nice collection of programming practice tasks: CodeKata: Code Kata.
(got link from Selena).
brain science quote /Seung/
Every connectome changes over time.
What kinds of changes happen?
Neurones, like trees, can grow new branches and they can lose old ones.
Synapses can be created and they can be eliminated.
And synapses can grow larger and they can go smaller.Second question: What causes these changes?
Well, it's true, to some extent they are programmed by your genes. But that's not the whole story.
Because there are signals, electrical signals that travel along the branches of neurones, and chemical signals that jump across from branch to branch.These signals are called neural activity.
And there's a lot of evidence, that neural activity is encoding our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions - our mental experiences.
And there's a lot of evidence, that neural activity can cause your connections to change.
And if you put those 2 facts together, it means that your experiences can change your connectome.
That's why every connectome is unique, even those of genetically identical twins.
The connectome is where nature meets nurture.
And it might be true, that just the mere act of thinking can change your connectome.
An idea that you may find empowering.(...)
So we will have to use our computers to try to unscramble the chain.
And if we can do that, the sequence of the neurones we recover from that unscrambling will be a prediction of the pattern of neural activity that is replayed in the brain during memory recall.
And if that were successful, that would be the first example of reading a memory from a connectome.
Źródło:
Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome | Video on TED.com. [direct podcast link]
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Polecam - naprawdę ciekawe.
A propos - zastanawiam się czy i kiedy facebook wypuści takie dane (ale z tego co pamiętam, FB nie zbiera danych o religii/rasie).