Imagine yourself preparing for a business trip on which you
will need a large number of sensitive files when you arrive at your
destination. Being a sensible person, you're not comfortable having unencrypted
sensitive files on your laptop, so you store the files in a large TrueCrypt container with state-of-the-art
encryption.
When you open your laptop to use the sensitive files at your
destination, you find that all the needed files are missing – none of them were
properly synchronized to the laptop. Worse yet, you get home and find out that
all the files created for the trip on your home desktop had been permanently
destroyed!
Road warrior, you are screwed!
I very narrowly avoided having that happen to me during
preparations for an upcoming trip. This post will alert you to things I learned
that might help you avoid having such things happen to you. I discuss:
- Encryption tools
- Synchronization tools and issues
- Major problems with existing synchronization tools – BitTorrentSync-Beta and other cloud services
Encryption Tools
There are dozens of ways to effectively protect sensitive
files on computers that you use at home or
