storage privacy (was: Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??)

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:35:49PM -0700, mark485anderson at eml.cc wrote:
 
> Judge: "Ok you are to be held in contempt and in jail xyz, until such
> time as you give us the pass phrase to your data"

Plausible deniability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt
 
> Most data overwrite programs take too long-you do not have that time
> when they are knocking down your door.

You have to power down the servers before confiscating them.
You can use a smartcard along with a PIN for a login, or at
least purge the passphrase after N failed login attempts.

Don't assume Mallory is omniscient and omnipotent. Knuckledragger
forensics won't even find anything out of ordinary. 
 
> A strong magnetic field close to the hard drive will completely destroy
> the data making it impossible to recover. I will also probably fuckup

Have you any idea how strong the field would have to be? Look it up.

> the drive mechanism, rendering the drive useless. Someone said consumer
> demagnetizers were not sufficently strong? How do you know this?

How about using Google, Luke. Ya think you can install a >1 Tesla
coil between your hard drive trays? Ya think forensics can't get at
residual bit magnetization with a cleanroom, and a MFM head? You're in
for a big surprise, then. 
 
> I have not run a tor server, so I do not know the exact requirements.
> Can it be done from a ram drive?

Let's say you have a hidden service which you don't want to become
public.
 
> Explosives and incendiaries are a poor choice for obvious reasons. Want
> to add arson and terrorism to your charges?

To add insult to the aggravation, thou art a humourless twat to boot.
 
> I am not saying magnetism is the only way or even the best way, but a
> way, assuming you have recent backups at an undisclosed, secure
> location.

I am saying you're talking out of /dev/ass
 
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