by LilJennie » February 5th, 2009, 7:42 am
I just wanted to add that with Mac OS X and Windows, you can make a separate user account for files that you may not want others to see. Other users would see their own files, not yours, and they wouldn't be able to get into your files. Also, although I haven't tried this, in some OSes there's a way to encrypt all files in an account, so that even if someone were able to gain access to those files somehow, their contents would still be obscured to anyone who didn't know the password.