Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??

[F. Fox]

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Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:06:22PM -0700, mark485anderson at eml.cc wrote:
> 
>> If I was in your position I might consider putting some bulk
>> demagnetizers near my hard drives with a panic switch, with backups to a
> 
> Doesn't work, you'd need too many Teslas. Plastique or thermite would work.
> Cryptographic filesystem would work, since you only would have to lose
> power for a couple seconds.
> 

It might be a bit late for buying and placing explosives or
incindieries. =:oD In any case, I'm not about to give advice on
explosives, etc. - I'm not anonymized from here, forgetting the fact
that it's a moot idea.

A cryptographic filesystem is a day late and a dollar short... however,
he might be able to start overwriting with something like Darik's Boot &
Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net

To finish would take forever, but IIRC, the Gutmann-style wipe starts
with a pseudorandom stream - and if even a single one of those were to
complete before they got the drive, they'd need to stick the thing in a
cleanroom to get anything (again, IIRC).

They don't always do that... software usually comes first. I guess it
depends on the value of the data.

If something really, really nasty got relayed through your node - like
an [alleged] "terrorist threat" or similar hogwash - they might use such
a method.

But, DBAN's a free, practical, and non-violent idea.

- --
F. Fox
CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+
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