Hi James,
I should have been slightly more clear - I did a 7-pass erase on the
drive before doing a clean install of OS X and Windows with zero
identifying information anywhere, including for registration and user
account creation, and then only installed applications and copied
files that I absolutely knew I needed to have for all of two
days. On
top of that there was the obvious points of not using
password-protected sites on an insecure network, disabling everything
in the Sharing panel in System Preferences, and using a secure VPN
for
whatever I might need to do. That was if I even dared to use my
laptop there, rather than back at the hotel. And once I was back
home, I reformatted just in case there was something on my MacBook
that shouldnt've been, and reinstalled all the stuff I wanted.
Although one could theoretically achieve something similar using
secure empty on a lot of files, there's no way to be completely
devoid
of that kind of information short of doing a complete
reinstall...there's so much that could give you away, from your
Safari/Firefox passwords and the Keychain to the files you might have
on the computer.
Honestly, it's annoying to be this insanely secure. At home, I
wouldn't even care if a friend on the network messed around with me,
or if I used insecure methods to login on sites and whatever else I
might use. But I didn't want to make a fool out of myself. Defcon's
network is definitely hostile to the extreme, and I'm sure there were
attendees who showed up with pen and paper instead of a laptop
because
of all the threats, grin.
cheers,
jane
On 8/7/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jane,
How did you wipe your hard drive of personal information? Id you
just
put it in the trash and do a scur empty?
Thanks James
