Many of us keep our most important files on a detachable USB drive which could easily be taken by a third-party, files copied on to their drive, without you being any the wiser. This could include your media collection, work documents, accounts or any other file. Although we setup a login and password to secure our PC, we simply forget that some of those files are not hosted on the main hard drive (and even then are not that secure).
TrueCrypt 6.2a is free encryption technology that you can use to secure your drive and prevent unauthorised users from gaining access to the contents. You can create an encrypted volume, if you desire, and simply read/write to this volume as if it was a standard partition. As TrueCrypt is a cross-platform tool, if you decided to turn your portable USB key in to an encrypted drive, you could simply move this to/from your PC and Mac and use it with few compatibility issues (irrespective of the NTFS read/write issues).
TrueCrypt for Windows and
for Mac links.
18 Jun 2009
