[Web4lib] Bitten by the Portable Apps bug!

[Isabel Danforth]

The sandisk thumb drives we purchase for our students have at least a 
sample of some type of locking software on them.  I have not tried it at all.

Isabel

At 11:57 PM 5/6/2006 -0400, Tara Calishain wrote:
>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
>
>
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