Whats the best way to secure your private data on your hard drive in event ot theft - even from a IT Expert?

Question

I presumed that windows XP EFS was unbreakable, even by forensics (with the assumption that if they dont know your windows password - they cannot break into your acct to use your key...changing the password from admin will also change your key...am I right?) - then I keep reading that an expert in forensics can break EFS. If thats the case, why are we paying Microsoft money for a OS that has such a security flaw? The only other option I see is encryption software on the internet...however, the software decrypts the with a special password...every time you want to update that file (ie it could be a personal address book in word etc), you have to input password and un-encrypt the file to view. Once updated,you have to decrypt the file (manually with the software) again. What bloody palava that is.Not workable at all. What if the file is part of a working app as opposed to a data file? Is there anyway out there which guarantees data security?Note:EFS also lets ANYONE view the files names

Answer 1

Yes! The best way to secure your private data is to get an encrypting program to encrypt all your files. But there are programs that are made by people to decrypt your files, soo yes they can.