The time is drawing near that I have to go home and fear the possible
Customs search of all my personal data. Given this irrational paranoia, I have a new hobby: using/finding/making nearly all portable applications. The idea is, well, ideal. I have a USB drive (in my case an SD card) that contains all my sensitive programs and frequently used files: Firefox, Thunderbird, KeePass, Tor, Privoxy, TrueCrypt, instant messengers- things I don't want on my computer even if the damned thing's system is encrypted.
The reasoning behind this is more of practicality than security. If the application can run off of a USB stick, then I can plug that into any computer and work there. I like the sound of this.
So I am looking around at
Portable Apps.com, liking what I see. Now I am no slouch when it comes to searching through options to find the one damned setting I need to make what I want to happen in a program. However, some apps just don't want to be contained.
Aside from:- finding those hard to get portable applications,
- making wildly detailed BAT scripts that copy and securely wipe application data,
- running everything in a sandbox, or
- rewriting source code,
What are other options? Is there some magic setting I can do in Windows to make this happen?
((It is now I think I realize the appeal of Vista, because I think it implements something like this for all running programs.))