Identity Theft

http://live.pirillo.com - Arcane writes: "Hello Chris, I have come up with a guide to help prevent identity theft. With the never ending technological advances, there are so many more ways people can take over your personal information... or find ways to obtain it."

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[gainrage]

What about programs in the Boot Partition? It's a useful space.

[IDTheftManifesto]

Great video Chris.

[SuperArnie]

Overwriting ONCE does all you need with hard disk drives. Overwriting 7 or even 35 times is simply paranoid overkill. Ask Ontrack or Convar: They retrieved data from drives found at Ground Zero, but are not able to find data on a disk, that has been overwritten with whatever pattern.

Of course, if you wish to waste time, power - and still keep worrying whether overwriting *once*more* wouldn't have been safer, go ahead.

[unytcommsys]

There is a program online, I think it is called TrueCrypt. I never learned how to use it, but it is free and effective.If you don't want to pay to encrypt your files with a 3rd prty applcnt fearing the man will have a "back door."

[unytcommsys]

LOL, they can tell when they search your computer applications. PGP erases files @ 28 passes. I use more than one file-erasing tool. However Eraser is my first choice. If the DOD is so concerned then they can simply police the internet like china and make sure no citizen can do it! It is the same as saying I can burn my paper, but limited to a crappy strip-cut (wiki or howstuffworks search) since the DOD wants a chance in hell to get my data. 2Hell w/ that! Did you encrypt today?

[unytcommsys]

Buying a good shredder is a good idea. goto howstuffworks and wikipedia andyou'll learn which shredder is best for you.

[unytcommsys]

Yea, that is good if you don't have an erasing program, but is way more time consuming.

[unytcommsys]

If you never seen 35 (or more) passes, then you are determinately new to erasing files. I have used half a dozen different applications. Only one of then didn't have 35 passes.

[unytcommsys]

If you look up the legal stuff, they are not required by 'law' to check the ID. all they need is a signature! It could Jay Lin Cho and Marry Beth can use his card.

[unytcommsys]

That is double speak is it not. Erasing a file does a rename and rewrite over and over. LOL, yea lets make it easier for a 15 year old to crack my files, but it is illegal for me to wipe a drive as good as the Fed. LOL I have free and purchased erasing and I have every intention of protecting my data. That would be like making 256encrypt illegal! LOL.