[Web4lib] Bitten by the Portable Apps bug!

[Tara Calishain]

At 12:03 PM 5/4/2006, Drew, Bill wrote:
>I must admit I have been bitten by the Portable Apps bug!  I just
>installed Portable Firefox, Portable ClamWin, and Portable AbiWord onto
>my thumb drive.  If this keeps up I will need to get a bigger thumb
>drive.  You can find lots of great Portable Applications at:
>http://portableapps.com/.  I blame it on Michael Sauers! ;-)

I must admit I find this stuff fascinatin', the fact that I could put the
core of what I need for Internet research on a nerdstick. (I have a 64
MB one that I bought in 2003 and it still works like a charm, despite 
getting extensively chewed on my the cat.) 

But one thing stops me -- the idea of losing it. What happens if you have
an FTP client loaded with your passwords etc and you lose the stick? 

Is there a way to encrypt the 'stick's content? I know there are biometric 
nerdsticks but I don't really trust that as a security measure yet. 

Tara