How To Use TrueCrypt to Encrypt Your Hard Drive Using Ubuntu

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Why would somebody want to encrypt files on their hard drive, especially if there is nothing to hide? Privacy is one of the fundamental rights that people are, or should be, entitled to. Just because you have no incriminating files, or ground breaking research stored on your computer, does that give others the right to paw through it? Of course not.

Your private material should remain private – not because you have something that you need to keep away from prying eyes, the majority of us don’t, but because privacy is a basic right that is slowly being eroded by those who claim to be for us.

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EXIF Data: Your Images Can Contain More Than You Think

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Everything you do online can be tracked in some way. One way or another nearly every electronic device that exists stores and/or creates data. While some of this information is nothing to worry about, the data proliferation that the digital age has brought, brings with it a whole new concern for many.

In other words, your pictures can give away more than you think.

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