Xanatos wrote:I clear my downloads bin pretty regularly, but I keep all my Night Ops & underground related stuff in a proprietary hidden & locked folder. Courtesy of one NOnet member.
I'm not asking anyone to post anything sensitive or incriminating - merely things you would download off of TPB or ebook websites. Psychlonic and I were toying around with doing an eBook thread - which is why I've decided to catalog all my downloads.
I encrypt all my data on several truecrypt volumes, but that's not to say that I keep all my applications, fitness videos and ebooks un-encrypted on my external HDD. There are numerous advantages to encryption, undoubtedly, and I think it should be used
very loosely; wherever it may hold an advantage. However when it comes to encrypting many gigabytes of downloads, which range from coding/fitness/martial arts/lockpicking videos, and similarly coding/fitness/martial arts/lockpicking/chemistry/electronics... eBooks- I don't feel the need.
If anyone has access to my downloads then it's safe to say they've searched my house, and they have searched it properly (incidentally, some of the hiding techniques I've heard have been abysmal - if you're getting your property searched, it's being searched
thoroughly most of the time) - I'm not going to pretend that at this phase they didn't understand that I possessed lockpicks (not a problem here), tried to keep fit and had specific hobbies and activities. There's still no evidence or any incriminating data there.
However, if you're going around doing activities which aren't NO ("
Ametuar Science" *ahem*) then the requirement for encryption is there 100%, I'm not going to deny that - but not the kind of materials I'm asking for here.
"I'm not worried about this because I am too strong, too good, too intelligent, but I want to say to the others 'don't follow the stupid'."