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Subject: Re: Encrypt your Archived Sourcecode.
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On Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:20:18 AM UTC, darkestkhan wrote:
> On Sunday, December 8, 2013 11:53:31 AM UTC, Austin Obyrne wrote: > The r=
easons why you should do this are increasing day by day. The latest one is =
malware called =93CryptLocker=94. This gets into your computer after they h=
ave conned you into opening an email or PDF attachment =96 it then encrypts=
 all your important data including your important sourcecode. The next step=
 is to hold you to ransom until you pay a =91bitcoin=92 fee to have them un=
lock it again for your use. For all problems with Windows (and especially w=
ith problem of malware on Windows) there is solution - it is called GNU/Lin=
ux. And if you don't like it you can always try one of the *BSDs.=20

<What I don't get is why having encrypted backup is supposed to be better t=
han <simple backup. I would understand if we were talking about Error Corre=
cting <Codes (like BCH) but encryption is not ECC. darkestkhan

Yeah. I see what you mean.  In truth I can only postulate vague reasons my =
self but it is bound to happen that somebody in the future will want to use=
 it.  I do know of one reader at present who has reasons for her work to be=
 secured while she is out of office.

** While your'e here can you help me get started with programming Ada ciphe=
r programs in Linux.

I seem to run into trouble evry time I download anything to do with compile=
rs.

Which version of Linux would you go for?

Austin