hahaha! Ok, let a Alice/chatterbox run through your harddisk! :P
[1] http://alice.pandorabots.com/ On 1/25/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:09:40 +0545, Bipin Gautam said: > >> So, plausible deniability solution for disk wiping?: >> >> Let, disk wiping tools LOAD the whole WIKIPEDIA in nxn matrices and >> mix ALL the words & phrases in a random pool continuously and use THIS >> as the "Wiping passes and patterns" while they wipe the disk-space >> (instead of using random-pass or zero) and let the people who dont >> need-to-know make sense of whatever they want to pull up from the >> 'patterns' generated from the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF KNOWLEDGE & unlimited >> keywords and phrases and counter the same? > > The problem is that although using Markov chains to generate pseudo-random > text, it's usually pretty obviously pseudo-random text. And in fact, they're > usually so random that it's pretty obvious it's just random words and > doesn't > prove anything more or less than acres of zeros. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociated_press > > The problem is that every once in a while, those things actually generate > short chunks of intelligible text (especially when using a longer chain > length). So now, instead of being able to say to the district attorney > > "The disk was full of zeros, and you can't prove what was on it before". > > you're now saying to him: > > "What do you mean, you found the phrase 'Drop the cocaine and kiddie porn > off > at my place around 9PM' on block 239349 of my hard drive?" > > Generally a bad idea. > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
