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How to encrypt your disk with TrueCrypt?

Recently I had to encrypt an entire partition to protected some sensitive data. I found out that TrueCrypt is quite easy to use and provide pretty good protection against attackers with physical access to your machine. You can encrypt your data in two ways: 1) By creating an encrypted file which you...

How to secure your local file sharing server with Samba

For this guide, we will use samba. It is popular enough, so any problems with it, should have a published solution on the internet. First off, we will need Samba installed on our box. Different operating systems have various ways of installing it. for gentoo: emerge -av samba for debian based: apt-get...