<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM, David Champion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@dchamp.net">dave@dchamp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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If I were traveling overseas with a laptop, I would install a clean<br>
drive and only put what you really need on it. A spare drive is pretty<br>
cheap.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>Having just returned from overseas, my strategy was:<br><br> * Spare computer (light weight, long battery),<br> * clean OS install<br> * All important files on a thumb drive<br>
* All private files on a hidden, encrypted partition on the thumb drive.<br><br>Ubuntu, presumably other Linuxes, detects the encrypted partition on my thumbdrive and asks me to mount it. It's really not much of an inconvenience.<br>
<br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>