Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:05:00 +0100
MY MICROSD

for the last year i have been carrying my documents on a 32gb microsd
but since the data is so sensitive, i am afraid of losing it. the
obvious answer was to encrypt it, but how?

my solution is a portable and secure operating system called tails. it
uses 8gb of space and reserves the rest for "persistence";
a luks-encrypted partition to store files. i could encrypt the microsd
without tails, but it's reassuring to have a clean operating system
with me at all times. it also has a feature to make backups to other
tails drives.

this works fine for my x220 but since my macbook, which i use for work,
has no way to decrypt luks partitions i installed arch over UTM. the
setup takes 5 minutes and runs very resource efficient.