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How to Password Protect a Seagate Expansion Drive

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  • 22-12-2017 2:59pm
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    vicwatson
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    It looks as if this is not "inbuilt", maybe it is?

    Is there a way to lock the drive via a password?


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    ED E
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    TrueCrypt.


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    smuggler.ie
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    Just to be aware

    TrueCrypt - Wikipedia:
    On 28 May 2014, the TrueCrypt official website, truecrypt.org, began redirecting visitors to truecrypt.sourceforge.net with a HTTP 301 "Moved Permanently" status, which warned that the software may contain unfixed security issues,
    http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
    WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues
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    ED E
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    https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm


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    Are Am Eye
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    ED E wrote: »
    TrueCrypt.


    Veracrypt the current equivalent


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    smuggler.ie
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    ED E wrote: »
    https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
    And you abolutely rigth, therefore - "Just to be aware"
    I found this to be interesting reading.

    Wikipedia has "Legal cases" stories about agencies, with "top end" resources available on their hands, failing to break encryption.
    Leaves you wonder: why developer themselves shut it down? Was it just political game and they where forced to do so in favor of Microsoft's BitLocker?
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    ED E
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    FISA Courts.

    They can't say they got ordered, but they can say dont use our stuff. Exact same way some ISPs have "Warrant Canary" pages. They cant announce a FISA order against them, but if that webpage suddenly stops being served then you know the game is up.


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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Thanks, will those mentioned above allow me put a password on the drive so it cant be accessed?


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    If you have a "business" version of windows 2000 or later then your operating system can encrypt individual files using EFS, they appear green in lists.

    EncFS is available for most OS's https://encfsmp.sourceforge.io/ if you want something cross platform.

    The whole paranoia about file encryption is best explained here https://xkcd.com/538/

    (if you are paranoid about TLA's then use at lest two schemes as one will be found to be leaky eventually)


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