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Secure personal information?

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andyd409

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Oct 23, 2010
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How do you secure your personal information, that is information of a financial nature and or information that contains sensitive identity information like social security number (on tax forms) and the like?

Like most people I need to get serious about safeguarding personal info.

I am considering secure DMG's and letting them just propagate into my normal backup process, which involves Time Machine and main HD cloning.

Any other suggestions?

TIA
 
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Alrescha

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Jan 1, 2008
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When I get a new machine, the first thing I do is turn on FileVault. I make sure that Time Machine backups are similarly encrypted.

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maflynn

maflynn

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May 3, 2009
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I recommend you use OS X's FileVault 2, which will encrypt your entire drive. This will protect your data in the event your computer is stolen.
 
SandboxGeneral

SandboxGeneral

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Sep 8, 2010
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If you're not interested in encrypting the entire drive and only wish to encrypt certain files and folders, you can use gpgtools to do so. It's an open-source encryption suite based on the ultra-secure PGP encryption standard almost once classified as a weapon by the US Congress in the 1990's.

I use it to encrypt a few things that I store in Dropbox.
 
tech4all

tech4all

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Similar to what SandboxGeneral mentioned, is Knox by AgileBits, the maker of 1Password. I've never tried Knox, so I can't say how good it is personally, but just wanted to throw that out there. :)
 
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