For ease of use ScramDisk meets most criteria, and for its ability to protect confidentiality it rates very high. Like ScramDisk, E4M provides strong protection for confidential files. There are many similar commercial products too numerous to list. It is quite likely that most of these programs, commercial or shareware, are similar in functionality for keeping records confidential. In Conclusion Technology is generally designed to allow us to work more efficiently, but most new technologies enable us do things never before possible.
Technology also creates problems never before evident.
Word processors, E-mail and the Internet have presented unprecedented challenges to confidentiality. The mental models of lock, key and paper that we have developed since the invention of paper and locks has served us well for several thousand years. The digital information age is presenting us with new opportunities and new challenges, and the old models don't work. I am much more concerned with someone gaining access to my office and making off with one of my techno-gadgets than I am with someone gaining access to my confidential files. However, I lock my office and keep my files pass phrase protected.