{"id":1009,"date":"2011-03-27T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T19:38:39","slug":"1009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/1009\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure that flash drive and protect your data &#8211; Cloudeight  freeware goodie 3\/27\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up  one of EB&#8217;s flash drives the other day, and you won&#8217;t believe what I found. She  has a Swiss bank account with tons of money in it and she&#8217;s planning to run off  with Juan Valdez &#8211; the coffee mogul &#8211; and leave me with the struggling  Cloudeight company. Ha! But now I know her surreptitious plans, I&#8217;m going to fix  her! I have Juan&#8217;s phone number and I&#8217;m going to call him today and tell him  about EB&#8217;s horrendous eating habits and terrible manners. I&#8217;m going to tell him  how she sits in her weekly bubble bath &#8211; every Saturday, like clockwork &#8211; for  six hours and comes out looking like a puckered white prune. I&#8217;m going to tell  him all about her habit of biting her toenails. When I get done talking to Juan  he wouldn&#8217;t go to Burger King with her, let alone Tropez.\u00a0 Here I am eating  peanut butter and crackers and she&#8217;s drinking $100 bottles of Pouilly Fuisse and  eating Russian caviar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">OK. It&#8217;s  time to get serious now. None of the above is true (except the bubble bath  part). I wrote it to make a point: If you have sensitive data on your flash  drive (s) &#8211; and you take your flash drive (s) with you when you travel, have you  considered what would happen if you lost your flash drives (s). If anyone found  it and plugged it in to their computer, they&#8217;d have access to all that personal  data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">Our freeware  pick this week is a little (3MB) program that makes it easy for you to create an  encrypted (and invisible) partition on your USB flash drive (s) where you can  store anything you don&#8217;t want anyone else to see. If EB had had the foresight to  use this program, Juan Valdez would still just be a coffee commercial dude to  me, instead of a foreign interloper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">Yes I know.  This is getting a bit soap opera-ish, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s almost as good as watching  &#8220;As the World Turns&#8221; or &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;. You almost can&#8217;t wait to see who is  going to kiss who next. Right? You want to know more about Juan and EB don&#8217;t  you? Too bad. This is a family newsletter, plus a lot of the men reading this  are rolling their eyes and getting up to grab a beer and a couple of Motrin. I  will get down to business now. The best way to slide off this soap opera theme  and back to the world of computers where I belong is to bring in the program&#8217;s  developer. So here he is, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Juan Valdez<\/span>, the developer of today&#8217;s  freeware pick:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">&#8220;Rohos  Mini Drive protect USB flash drive with a password by making hidden and  encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. If you have many private  files on the USB drive and want to keep them in secret, you can protect them by  a password and strong encryption with Rohos Mini Drive. Also it offers a  portable encryption tool to work with encrypted partition on any PC.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">It  doesn\u2019t require Administrative Privileges to open password protected USB drive  partition on a guest PC!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Easy to setup, easy to use. Intuitive USB flash drive Setup Wizard automatically  detects your USB flash drive and setup an encrypted partition properties. You  just need to provide a protection password. One click &#8211; and you can save your  first file into protected volume. Encryption is automatic and on-the-fly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can access your secret volume by entering a right password. Disk-on  notifications help you to know when secured partition gets connected or  disconnected. If you click on the balloon the Explorer window will be opened on  the disk.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Portable Application allows to work with a password protected partition on any  PC, you just click \u201cRohos Mini\u201d icon on the USB flash drive root folder and  enter disk password. Rohos will start a volume and will stay in the system tray  to close the disk when you finish working&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">Hey, his  English grammar might even be worse than mine. But he&#8217;s a software developer and  English probably isn&#8217;t his first language, so give him a break. And while you&#8217;re giving him a break, \u00a0give me a break too?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">The program  is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rohos.com\/products\/rohos-mini-drive\/\">Rohos Mini  Drive<\/a> &#8211; and the freeware version creates hidden, password-protected  partitions up to two gigabytes. Remember you can only use 2GB USB flash drives with the free version. If you want to use bigger drives you gotta pay money. Just sayin&#8217; . Don&#8217;t be writing that we didn&#8217;t warn about this &#8212; because we&#8217;re warning you &#8211; you can only use the free version of this program for USB flash drives of 2GB or less. Got it? OK! The good news: Most of us aren&#8217;t going to cart around  more than two gigabytes of seriously sensitive data anyway, so the freeware version  will work fine for most of us, even EB and Juan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\">I bet you&#8217;re  all wiping the tears from your eyes and feeling sorry for TC &#8211; the poor  peanut-butter-and-cracker-eating hermit you all don&#8217;t know but love anyway.  Don&#8217;t feel sorry for me, I&#8217;ve had worse days. So forget about my woes and go  read more about (and download) our freeware goodie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rohos.com\/products\/rohos-mini-drive\/\">Rohos  Mini Drive<\/a>&#8221; and protect your sensitive data stored on your flash drive (s). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rohos.com\/products\/rohos-mini-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rohos Mini Drive is  our freeware goodie today. Get it while it&#8217;s free<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rohos.com\/products\/rohos-mini-drive\/\">Rohos Mini Drive<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>What is it?<br \/>\nA program that creates a hidden, password-protected partition on  USB flash drives<br \/>\nDownload size: 3MB <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up one of EB&#8217;s flash drives the other day, and you won&#8217;t believe what I found. She has a Swiss bank account with tons of money in it and she&#8217;s planning to run off with Juan Valdez &#8211; the coffee mogul &#8211; and leave me with the struggling Cloudeight company. Ha! 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