Do you encrypt your personal data?

As I'm migrating my data to a new laptop and taking backup to an external hard drive, I was thinking of encrypting my data in case my laptop (or external hard drive) got stolen.

I don't have any sensitive data, just random ebooks/pdfs (can be found online for free) and some personal photos, that's why I was not very protective of my data in the past.

my questions to you:

1) Do you encrypt your personal data (on your personal laptop/smart phone/backup external hard drive) ?

2) What encryption software do you use?

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GoodBishop

GoodBishop wrote: »

I should encrypt my stuff.... but I don't.

I need to organize my stuff before I encrypt it.

Wait, wait... my laptop is encrypted! Truecrypt. My desktop though isn't. But it does have a security cable tying it down.

jmritenour

This is what always springs to mind when someone asks me about encryption...

I don't keep anything of value on my hard drive. I have a flash drive that lives in my safety deposit box. When I need to save sensitive date, I go to the bank, get it out, save it, then drop it off the next day. It might sounds like a PITA, but it's relatively quick and easy, gives me a degree of assurance that if my house ever burns down, I still have my sensitive info, and in the case of tax returns, I know I have them all in one place if I ever get audited. AND, as an added bonus, my wife knows where it is, so if anything ever happens to me, she can get to it.

Honestly, I'm far more concerned about my data being protected once I've willingly given it to another party than I am about it getting stolen from any of my systems.