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most of the big commercial encryption is 'sponsored' by the NSA and has been since we brits invented it at GCHQ yonks ago. lots of ex nsa geeks founded these companies and a govt contract in return for the keys is usual practise.
a lot of this stuff is re-invented so we arent supposed to know thats its old hat by the time it gets to us. like that new thing re-invented by a yank student which can send data and power to a bug on the other side of a clean room/vault wall. GCHQ came up with it years ago apparently.
they still need to run a supercomputer to crack it but it takes a fraction of the time when they know the algorithm used.
the hardest ones to crack are the ones encoded into pictures which you can make with freeware progs like camoflage, the super high tech paedo rings can send pictures within pictures to really make it hard for plod
for general encryption to secure your laptops overseas then bitlocker within windows has good reviews and you can set a usb/flash drive as a key so it wont boot up unless present. pretec bullet has a similar bit of software installed.what the world needs is an enema, make that two - just to give it a sense of purpose.
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Truecrypt. It's free and seems quite good. You can encrypt your entire disk so you need a password to boot the machine. You can create files that behave like encrypted disks so you have to enter a password to mount the disk and make its contents available.
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PGP will do both of these things and encrypt your email into the bargain but it costs a fair bit. PGP will also let you use a smart card like the Yanks' Common Access Card instead of a password.
One advantage of Truecrypt is that it is supposed to provide encrypted disks that are "hidden" i.e. not detectable on the file system. Hence if you and your laptop get captured by Colonel Gadaffi, he wont try to torture you to reveal the contents of that file called GOATPRN.DSKArRSe is the Hotel California - You can log-out any time you like, but you can never leave!
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as to proof - cheltenham is 8 miles up the road and I know a few employees beyond my godfather who used to run the NSA part of the place.
they refurbished the buildings up at battle flats when they realised the donut wasnt big enough and the two old super computers up there spend all day churning through data as they cant afford to replace them and apparently if they switch them off there is a good chance they might not reboot properly.
no opsec to worry about as its common knowledge if you read up on it. the local papers covered the site redevelopment as a lot of the old ww2 huts became a sainsburys and housing estate which was probably bigger news.what the world needs is an enema, make that two - just to give it a sense of purpose.
US electoral democracy is just a structured system of legalised bribery.
a senior Chinese officer has said, “all the great nations in the world own aircraft carriers – they are symbols of a great nation”. That’s why China has just commissioned its first. By the same token, to opt for a “carrier gap” of some years is to abandon your responsibilities.
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