Just as with your laptop. Create a fake login.

So when someone beats you with a phone book or a tirewrench, you can say "the login is jdoe, password 123!" and they'll login and see your not so important files. When actually your login is janedoe password abc.

Same applies with encrypted partitions in your setup. Have a partition A at index N and a partition B at index M. A,N is the fake one, complete with files recently modified (.bashrc and cron will help with that). And B,M is your normal secure parition.

A bit snarky - but install VMWare, make it full-screen and hope they don't notice?

The system is no better than having a normal credit card CVV.

The LCD-like half-images are the secret. Take a photo of that and you're totally compromised.

The battery systems (like RSA SecurID) are better because they protect the secret inside the deviceand only give a derived value every 60 seconds.

Nice try however.

Like this:

www.certainkey.com/dm.

Needs some crypto computation to decrypt. User needs to click on a "Get my Email" button. Works on iphone.

This news is actually over 50 years old.

Pop reference you can check out: "It's a Wonder Life" - the flash-back scene where the lead charactor's friend tells me "there's a great investment oppertunity with Soy farmers, they're going to make plastics!" - or something like that.

Mr Tupper (Tupperware fame) made it big by using fuel refinement waste to make plastics - there by removing the bottleneck of growing Soy.

The key is to make the bots/spammers use more resources then they have.

Something like this can be used to slow down email address scanning bots.

Like sending email with hashcash, if you make the scammers work to get the right answer by requiring to compute a computationally complex formula (crypto function random walk distinguished points), they will not be able to keep up.

A website can pre-compute a table of (and continuously add to that table) challange-responses that a visitor must perform. A human will see a 5-15 second delay to registration, to a bot this can be intolorable.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/31/2246241&tid=93

MD5CRK used a JavaApplet that used this Chinese Lottery concept. The applet performed 95% as fast as a pure C implementation of MD5. JavaScript is another matter however. And an assebly code that inlieved MMX/SSE with ALU was much faster.

Background threads in browsers will help of course.

I have gigs of photos (wedding, long lost family picnics, etc) and music that I can't bare to lose.

Find someone who doesn't want to lose anything either and setup rsync over ssh. Synchronize often, rsync is very friendly to bandwidth.