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HOWTO: Encrypted USB thumb drives and (USB) hard disks using loop-AES

Yet another thing that has been on my TODO list for quite a while: encrypted USB thumb drives and/or encrypted external USB hard drives.I have finally tried this over the weekend using loop-AES. This...

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Stupid question of the day

Are full hard drives heavier than empty hard drives?I read about this in the Talk page of the article about disk drives in the German Wikipedia.What sounds like a pretty stupid question (it probably...

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Benchmarking an encrypted dm-crypt/LVM/ext3/SELinux hard drive with bonnie++...

I'm going to set up a new laptop system soonish (more on that later) which shall have a completely encrypted hard drive. Hence, I'm testing a few setups wrt security, performance, manageability and...

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Broken hard drive woes and viable backup options for huge data amounts

Hardware sucks. It just totally and utterly sucks.I purchased a 300 GB hard drive (plus a 3.5" USB disk drive enclosure) roughly 8 months ago which I encrypted using dm-crypt and then used it as a...

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Worst Ad Placement Award 2009...

...goes to: Seagate and/or heise.de (translation here).

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