{"id":310,"date":"2008-03-04T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-03-04T19:53:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:53:49","slug":"this-week-i-have-been-mostly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"This week I have been mostly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been mostly doing the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suffering from a Stomach Bug.  This has been Unpleasant;<\/li>\n<li>Playing tennis, bowling and baseball on the Wii: excellent fun, even though I have acquired one or two Actual Sporting Injuries;<\/li>\n<li>Investigating the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/\">TrueCrypt<\/a> as a suitable cross-platform solution for encrypting USB memory sticks.  It seems to work very nicely: I&#8217;ve tried it under Linux at home and under Linux and Windows XP at work.  Only annoyance is that it requires an administrator user (root privileges &#8211; <strong>Edit<\/strong>: what happens is that it prompts you for your password, sudo-style) to mount volumes under Linux.  Not a problem for me, as I&#8217;m admin on all the machines I use, but it&#8217;d be nice for it not to have that requirement.  It means that users without sudo access cannot use TrueCrypt.  I&#8217;m using the full volume encryption on the USB stick, simply because this strikes me as more secure: if one were, say, to use a volume file on the otherwise-unencrypted USB filesystem, then deleting files puts them in &#8220;.Trash&#8221;, which will be unencrypted.  Not good.  Therefore, encrypt the whole volume: much safer;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also intending to investigate the full system encryption features in Debian\/Ubuntu, when I reinstall the OS on my laptop in the near future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been mostly doing the following: Suffering from a Stomach Bug. This has been Unpleasant; Playing tennis, bowling and baseball on the Wii: excellent fun, even though I have acquired one or two Actual Sporting Injuries; Investigating the use of TrueCrypt as a suitable cross-platform solution for encrypting USB memory sticks. It&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=310\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}