That was why I actually only encrypted the system partiton and not the recovery partition. The other concern was depending on if the bios supports it or not, if the recovery partition was encrypted, it would fail to boot.

I apologize I was not as clear as I should have been. The recovery drive is an Operating system recovery partition back to factory settings, it is not a backup disk. It does not contain any User Data that is on the windows partiton.

My thought is if someone were to "recover" it would reformat the drive back to factory setting. Which would loose all the data and make recovery impossible due to the deletion of the header key(unless of course you had a backup of the header key).  

My concern is, would true crypt store any information on this partition?

I had a question regarding TrueCrypt encryption.

How Secure is Encrypting Just the system partition Vs Whole Disk in the given scenario.

Hard Disk has 1partition for recovery (dell) 1 partition for Windows 7. if I were to only encrypt the System Partition how secure would that be?

My only thought is worse case scenario someone boots into recovery and wipes the whole drive, (which they could do anyway with a linux Distro and no bios pass). Is there anything i'm missing? Would true crypt store any file on the recovery partition that a forensics expert could use to hack the drive?

Is this book for python 2?

Thank you for your reply, I will stick with Python 3 then for now. I really like the syntax so far in python 3, It's very "logical"

I have started to learn Python 3. I am very new to python, but am familiar with VB script. So some of the Python 3 syntax is making sense to me.

However, I have been reading about Python 2, and it seems many people still use it.

So my first question is.

Should I learn Python 2 and then learn Python 3?

Or, am I ok sticking with Python 3 for now.

I want to learn Python, for Iphone programming and script writing.

Also, I heard that python is useful for PEN testing. I assume however, that most PEN testers use python 2. Since it's been around much longer.
 

I got called by my ISP once telling me if I didn't stop sucking down so much bandwidth they would shut me down... lol Who knew you could max out a fiber optic connection:)

Well I was just using movies as an example , I agree, I have Netflix and really have no need to download movies.. I was just wondering how SAFE they are, I know there are ways to mask torrent but it seem kinda pointless to me.. Seems like your ISP will know one way or another if your sucking all the bandwidth downloading, whether what your downloading traffic is encrypted or not. Thanks for your replies!

While were on the topic, how do you feel about News Groups?? If so, which do you use... there seems to be a lot out there O)

I have been a long time torrent user. From my understanding using torrents is NOT anonymous. You can see most individuals IP addresses and location on many torrent programs. Doesn't that mean that using torrents is quite a security vulnerability? Maybe I'm off here.. but I wonder why more people aren't caught for Illegally downloading say... Movies?

Any thoughts?

I know this is an older topic, but I'm curious, did anyone hack your email?

WOW Thank you all for your replies, I have read them all and they have been very helpful. I have downloaded and installed Ubuntu and so far I like it. Had a little trouble trying to get the Broadcom Wireless card working, but there was lot's of support. Also had some trouble using the "adduser" command but found out the problem was with my folder permissions and had to chmod the temp folder to be written by a "group" I created. Fun stuff!!!

Thanks again!

I am a noob, when it comes to linux. I'm somewhat familiar with Linux commands because I use many Unix packets with Mac Osx Terminal. However, I have been doing some research on the best distributions of Linux, and have come across no consensus.  From what I have read, it seems that the best version of "Linux" depends on what you want to use Linux for. For Pen testing, the word on the street is Backtrack is ONE of the best. I'm looking for some suggestions.

1. I need a Version of Linux that is easy to use and is a Windows replacement (Something that is an easy transition for the non technically inclined). I read that Fedora KDE is fairly popular, any thoughts?

2. A version of Linux that is a little more customizable for someone (like me), but is a good learning version as well. I read that GNU/Linux has a hardcore following

I read that Red Hat is a good version for businesses?

I have read many good things about Unbutu 

What do you think is the best version and why?

Thanks, I know this is a Noob question.

True that, I have websense at work.... and I figured out one of there open proxies. However that is against company policy and I don't want to get fired... I'm afraid when my boss comes to my desk and see's me watching youtube video's he might be wondering how I did that

Peace.

Thanks for the information Jimbob, gives me some things to research. Thanks again for your replies

I have Firefox set to fix the DNS problem. Whats the safest way to tunnel then? I head encrypting your traffic on a public wifi network would be a good idea. Is there another way to encrypt the traffic? Privoxy maybe?