[To what extent do you secure your data?]

I only have three files that are of such importaince that it merits "special treatment": My digital signature (in denmark, you can pay your phone bills and report your taxes with these) and a key pair for my internet banking logon.

What do I do with them? I keep backups on almost any data carying device within my grasp; laptop, server, mp3 player.

I don't explicitely encrypt these files, because they are inherently secure by them selves, meaning that you need to know the password before you can make use of them - and the passwords I use for these files are strong (rainbow crack is highly unlikely and John is not in your lifetime).

[Your top ten applications?]

My contribution. 0x10 Programs I I'de prefer not to be without:

• 0. Opera (web, rss, irc)

1. Thunderbird

2. PuTTY

3. 7zip

4. Skype

5. MPlayer

6. Daemon Tools

7. Oracle JDeveloper & Java

8. Linux

9. Acrobat Reader

A. Snort + LogCheck

B. Nano

C. Screen

D. apt-get & aptitude

E. Subversion

F. Notepad++