Thanks diabolus. Installing it onto my laptop "as we speak" ... creating a container to store all my private stuff. I like the way this application works. I've used a few other freeware applications to date but this one is better (no container size limits etc.).
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Thanks diabolus. Installing it onto my laptop "as we speak" ... creating a container to store all my private stuff. I like the way this application works. I've used a few other freeware applications to date but this one is better (no container size limits etc.).
Thanks Uno. I'm a little surprised that this is standard practise, and that more people don't have a problem with it.
A few clarifications:
1. It is not a windows OS, if I gave them the passwords I have my doubts whether they'd actually be able to do anything anyway(But this is not a windows/linux issue - I wouldn't share my password no matter the OS)
2. It's not like I have state secrets on my laptop. Just personal correspondence, financial and other personal data, and client work. And any of that that is really confidential is behind another password. But I don't understand why they'd need to look in the first place.
3. And yeah, I have backups - a week old so I'd lose a little but that is not a huge concern. I just don't see the need for them to be poking around on my hdd.
This is something quite interesting that I've not thought of before. It's probably just a case of them "seeing" it work, however, a boot should pretty much prove that it's working or not, so no need to give em the password. Reality is that getting access to your data would generally be easy anyway, simplest method would be to simply remove the hard disk and pop it in as a slave (not all OS's but Windows almost guaranteed). It's probably sort of like giving your car to a mechanic but not the keys. They could use diagnostic tools to check the hardware and confirm on delivery back to you that all seems to be in order, seems fair enough ...