I am taking a job in Russia and have been told that spies will most likely enter my apartment while I'm at work and hack/download my lap top's hard drive. However, if I have a removable hard drive, I can secure it at work. Can you recommend a system that: 1) Has a removable hard drive & 2) When the hard drive is removed, there is no way to discover any information on the machine? Thanks
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Just get a POWERFUL anti-virus program.Get the Mcafee Trial.Or Avg Trial.Don't get Avast or Avira,both suck.
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buy a laptop have the drive taken out buy a portable drive that you can configure an o/s on and take it to work with you
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All laptops have removable hard drives. You simply need a screw driver, that's it. Watch just the first minute of this video. It will give you an idea of how easily it can be removed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNxBiIWBXUM
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There are several approaches. My preferred approach is as follows: 1: Get whatever laptop you want and encrypt the whole disk with PGP whole disk encryption. 2: Get a USB portable drive, a terabyte will easily fit in your shirt pocket. Whole disk encrypt this also. 3: Load your applications on the main drive and your user files on the USB portable drive. 4: Use something like Windows washer to always wipe your temporary files on your laptop. 5:Your biggest risk of hack is while on line. Get the personal VPN below to encrypt your entire internet connection back to the USA or Europe. Nothing will be visible on any Russian network. This should do it for you.
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If you're in a position that attracts that much attention from 'investigation' sources, then merely taking whatever countermeasures you can on the computer itself will probably not help. Hidden cameras, microphones and a hatfull of other spying methods will render your security merely an inconvenience. Take a laptop and carry it with you.
