I have lost my fucking USB. It's NOT encrypted. Some Mexican has found it in the trash can next to my house and will fucking use it maliciously. Identity theft is fucking coming.
LEARN TO INTO ENCRYPTION. FFS it's so easy but I was always fucking lazy.
If you're paranoid, like ACTUALLY paranoid, diagnosed with it as a mental illness, then fucking encrypt your shit. If you lose something sensitive, you will have a nightmare coping.
t. Jow Forums schizo fag
What's a way to encrypt my USB or the files in it so that it's compatible with most computers and especially public ones?
zip archive with aes256 password. and make it a good one. it's how i hide my gf's nudes
>Keeping anything important on a flash drive
Top jej.
>he went outside
I wonder if I'm able to open zips in library computers. I guess that's the closest universal solution but I wish there was (fs) encryption that was natively supported by Windows, Linux and Mac that when inserted just prompted your password and that would be it. Though plugging sensitive data into public computer is a hazard in any case.
so don't fucking plug data into public computers
Oh shit wow great idea, I wonder why I never thought about it. The issue is that sometimes it's necessary for me to do that, either in the library or in school. The encryption would be for travel, so my files aren't readily available if I lose my USB stick. If the public computer is copying my files, well, there's very little I can realistically do about that in cases where I need to use those computers and use my files on them.
zip the sensitive data, don't zip stupid shit that needs editing. nobody cares about shit you'd edit in a library
I've had this happen once. Lost a drive at university. Some personal shit on it as well. Felt like shit about it but nothing apparently happened and I learned to let go, in the hopes that someone just got a new flash drive and wiped it for personal use. At least most people at uni aren't malicious.
>At least most people at uni aren't malicious.
HAHAHAHAHA
And in addition, I do use my own laptop as much as possible, but with some proprietary software with strict licenses ans whatnot, I'm sometimes forced to use our school computers. Not that a lot of GIS applications were free or available on Linux. And sometimes I need something important printed so I need to use library computers for that. They don't allow printing over the net from outside computers
or directly from the printer.
Well obviously I'm not carrying sensitive data that I don't need to use in the first place, everything on the stick would be something I need to use on the computers
I had a 128GB tiny drive on my key chain where about half was partitioned as exFAT with unencrypted, cross-platform files, a bit under half was a LUKS container with autismal encryption, and the last bit was a live boot of Alpine meant to be used to access the encrypted partition.
Then after spending a while setting this shit up I lost the drive before even putting any data on it. YMMV I guess
I don't live in burgerstan.
me neither, fuckwad
apparently you live in fantasyland
Necessary to cope with losing my usb drive.
How do people lose zip disquettes anyway? Has the concept of pockets not reached America yet?
my retarded friend keeps shit in his pants pocket and in his hoodie's pocket that doesn't zip close
he keeps losing shit, i wonder why
this
>filesystem
Why would you need an entire fs when you can just encrypt and decrypt files on fly with a ton of software?
Would be handy if it prompted the password automatically when you plugged it in and your files were ready to use right away.
I lost a file buddy with a bunch of my dads nudes on it, left it at the public library on accident must have slipped out of my cargo pants side pocket when I was leaving. Never went back there to say the least.
0w0
Jesus christ I can't tell what's real or fake on this board anymore
Retard.
Dad's nudes?
Fuck that.
I just install malware on all my flash drives.
>USB
please tell me people don't actually call flash drives this
>not wearing cargo pants to keep everything in them
>not tapping every pocket every minute to check
>not having people thing you're mentally handicapped as you walk down the street tapping
>tapping yourself
>all the time
GET
OUT
>ENCRYPT MY 4GB USB FLASH DRIVE
>PUT MY Jow Forums CHARTS AND PRINTS ALL IN
>WRITE PASAWORD IN A PAPER
>LOSE THE PAPER
i use veracrypt with my 128gb usb drive to keep my downloaded stuff just for safety.
it has two partition, one unecrypted with portable veracrypt so everywhere i go i can use it and the encrypted partition.
Encrypt a full 64 gigabyte flash drive.
It takes more than a few days as shite hdd.
This, what the fuck are you doing?
I thought windows doesn't recognize multi partitioned USB flash drive?
>most people at uni aren't malicious.
The girl that used to bully me in highschool ended up with me in college, she kept bullying me.
1. put 7zip portable install (64 and 32 bit versions) on flash drive
2. put sensitive files into encrypted blob
3. ???
4. profit
Did you like it? Sounds hot.
the real problem with this naive approach is data-spillage. for example, if you open some file from your "save" encrypted blob, the text editor may buffer the contents on the disk (or flash drive) somewhere, making it recoverable with testdisk and similar tool.
the secure answer is to not handle any sensitive data on public computers, period.
just don't lose it, faggot
Who the fuck even plugs in a flash drive they found lying somewhere?
Actually this
I've found 2 flash drives, a phone, and an iPod touch.
The flash drives I found on a bench, the phone was sitting at a bus stop (at like 6:45 A.M.) and the iPod for some reason was on the sidewalk like 2 blocks from a mall.
I kept them because I didn't know the best way to go about returning them and didn't want to go through the trouble, also I'm an asshole who likes free stuff
As soon as I got home I wiped everything on them and didn't even bother to check what was on there
Some of my friends who found drives did the same thing
Most people really don't care and just want a spare phone/flash drive
I found a phone in high school with a girl's nudes on it but had no idea who she was and didn't want to go asking around for who it was. I fappef like twice and then just reset the phone and gave it to my little brother
You wan actually put Luks+ext4 on an USB drive
Windows won't be able to mount it
With nautilus on gnu/linux il will automatically asks you the password for encryption when you want to mount it
In cli: gio mount -d /dev/sdXX
You're doomed OP
Who the fuck uses USB drives in 2000AD +18?
on my keychain i have one encrypted usb stick with files and one usb killer.
Or you know, not put personal information in a flash drive in the year 2018. Email shit to yourself, cloud, your own private encrypted server that you can log into from anywhere, etc. Idiot.
>tfw found an sd card full of pictures of people I don't know laying around
Everybody you god damn meme posting pos.
the cloud is my USB you ignorant grandpa
I once found my neighbor's phone in local park. It wasn't locked so I copied all his pictures and contacts, and I put animu opening as his ring tone, and I saved a few gay porn videos and pics
I couldn't go on his social media accounts and fuck around because there were no passwords.
In the end I put the phone into his mailbox.
You're a cunt
fuck off
use 7zip and .7z everything with AES256 then install
7zip on every comp you use.
>666
>777
hmm
This needs a reply.
Come on user ffs.
I don't really know the guy so it's ok.
I never use these things except to shuttle files between systems when it's convenient anyway and never use them as more than temporary storage. Anyone keeping anything important on anything but your main system is an idiot.
>a bunch of my dads nudes
What?
Surely you made a backup of the pictures, yes? Link where
>not just netcatting files through the network
This makes OP as much of a tard as not encrypting his shit.
>file buddy
based