With more and more personal/private data of ours on our computers we should be more and more careful in terms of security. Besides the very easy-to-circumvent ways to secure data (such as using hidden folders [yes, there are still people who think that would be sufficient] or moving files into a “secure” location they think noone would look) there are quite a few programs actually allowing to encrypt data in a professional way, one of them being TrueCrypt.

While it won’t protect you from any Virus/Trojan/Malware or that other fancy stuff, it certainly does a nice job securely storing sensitive information (within an encrypted container or on a wholly encrypted partition), which may be equally important in certain situations (Note: I am not talking about hiding your favourite adultmovies from your mom here).

As this post is not intended to be an advertisement for said software, you may feel free to post your experiences with any other (preferably open source and cost-free) encryption tool(s).