Experience with Carbonite? Other choices.
I'm considering Carbonite to back up images and other computer files. Advertising and websites always look good. Would appreciate any eperiences and if there are other choices that are available. T...
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This is one of the reasons I don't use commercial encryption software as we don't know if a backdoor has been engineered, intentionally or by request through some "agency" action. And why I only use open source encryption as it does allow the possibility of community review.
TrueCrypt is currently undergoing an extensive independent audit by IsTrueCryptAuditedYet?. A partial report has indicated no backdoors found. But does have some medium level weaknesses.
It's best for now to use a stronger password for generating the key to avoid brute force attacks from systems designed to do so.
I personally tend to use only encrypted volumes, but aware that this does have security drawbacks in comparison to encrypting the entire system OS disk. For instance, it is possible that sensitive material could temporarily be stored unencrypted due to memory paging, or during hibernation to name a few.
TrueCrypt is currently undergoing an extensive independent audit by IsTrueCryptAuditedYet?. A partial report has indicated no backdoors found. But does have some medium level weaknesses.
It's best for now to use a stronger password for generating the key to avoid brute force attacks from systems designed to do so.
I personally tend to use only encrypted volumes, but aware that this does have security drawbacks in comparison to encrypting the entire system OS disk. For instance, it is possible that sensitive material could temporarily be stored unencrypted due to memory paging, or during hibernation to name a few.
