If you have one computer in your sitting room, it's normally regarded as 'open house', rarely is switched off and accessible by all family members, their friends and other relatives. The snag is, this is often the same computer you may use for editing your work documents when you get home. If you leave these lying around on your computer, anyone can read through them, accidentally delete them from the drive or worse your computer may be accessible to intruders when left connected to your Internet connection.

Steganos Safe One is a free tool that you can use to create an encrypted area on your internal hard drive, or even an external drive such as a portable USB stick or your iPod. This encrypted area is accessible through a password, which means that the content in the encrypted area is safe unless anyone finds the password.

16 Nov 2007