First. Let’s define FLOSS. It’s Free/Libre Open Source Software. The Wiki entry describes it much better than I could, so if you’re interested you can read more here.
The first FLOSS pick of the week is TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is an open source disk encryption utility for Windows (2000, XP, Vista) and Linux. What I like about it is that you can create a virtual encrypted disk and save it to a single file. You can backup the file to CD, online, or wherever. What’s really cool is something called Traveler Mode. You can save your encrypted disk on a USB stick and run TrueCrypt right from the stick without having to install the app.
Very cool indeed.
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