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

[mark485anderson at eml.cc]

Hey Eugene, go fuck yourself ok? Have you actually tested using a
magnetic field for this, no.
Seems to me you're the one talking out of dev/ass, cuz you are one. And
don't put it past someone to wire a plastique device to the hard drive,
seems like a perfect solution for some terrorist, maybe a distant cousin
of yours?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:20:24 +0100, "Eugen Leitl" <eugen at leitl.org> said:
> 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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