Chile Forum

Thanks for the tips, Mark.

I’ve always used a RAM drive for additional protection. I’ve had some trouble setting up one bigger than 50MB in Win2K, though. Not that it is all that necessary, but I may have to get busy and find something else that will allow me to set up a bigger one.

For e-mail, I’ve used Mailwasher for a long time, and I don’t think I would change it for anything else. There’s a little promotion since I got my copy for free.

I notice that when I use secure deleting of a file in a flash drive, it takes unusually long for the task to finish, depending on the number of re-writes. I do not do this for security reasons, though. I’m used to doing it on my HD’s, and sometimes I forget.

I’m sure there is a script that will take care of business on that score, but I wonder what would happen if you just expose a flash drive to a pulsating electromagnetic field. Maybe you can zap all the data in just a few seconds... I do this all the time with magnetic tapes, but I wouldn’t go that far with a flash drive, except in an emergency, I imagine.

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