Portable Drive or USB Flash Drive have taken over Floopy Disk.It's has been so convenient that you see everyone carry one of this Portable Drive around whether is it for work, share files, etc. It's small in size, work faster & hold large files many times of that Floopy.
However , for the convenient and the small size it causes worry if they get lost while storing sensitive information, anyone who finds an unprotected Portable Drive could just plug into a computer and browse the files on it.
Many Portable Drive, include security software to encrypt stored files, and require a password to view files on it.If you already own a Portable Drive and want to keep you files safe, you can find encryption programs for external and Portable Drive around the web.
One free option include, True Crypt for windows and Linux systems,and there are plenty of commercial programs available, Version Tracker a site that lists thousands of programs and softwares updates for Windows, Macintosh and Palm handheld systems, also plenty of files encryption and data-security programs to browse.
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