{"id":259,"date":"2008-08-09T19:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/08\/15\/how-do-you-secure-sensitive-data-on-your-computer\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T20:19:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T03:19:26","slug":"how-do-you-secure-sensitive-data-on-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/08\/09\/how-do-you-secure-sensitive-data-on-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you secure sensitive data on your computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here’s one way<\/a> not<\/strong> to do it:<\/p>\n

In reply to: How do you secure sensitive data on your computer? by Marc Bennet<\/p>\n

<\/span>I require a password to access my computer, but to top that off, I try not to store any sensetive [sic] data on my computer. Lists of passwords however, I HAVE to store on my computer, and what I do, is I encrypt them. The simplest way to encrypt something is to type it up in word, then take a screenshot of it, and save the PICTURE as an unknown filename, then of course, you put that in a password protected .zip file.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That password protected zip file really isn’t secure, but the sheer inconvenience of this awkward security-through-obscurity method is what makes it so remarkable: a screenshot of a Word document!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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