Bipin; Firstly: You know what you did. Secondly: Screw you for not crediting the master.
(I am the master, you are the dog.) Greetz & Love, Harmonious Profitability! -Travis On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 10:15:32 +0545, Bipin Gautam said: > > > it's a *bad* sector, so reading and recovering the data is a bitch... > > > > No, storing in Negative Disk, bad sector, stenography, slack space are > > all bad places to store data! > > No, I meant it's usually not worth worrying that if the disk has done a > hardware assignment of a replacement sector for a *real* live actual > the-hardware-barfs-on-it bad sector, you can usually not worry about the > contents of that bad sector, as the drive hardware won't let you access it > directly anymore, redirecting you to the new replacement block. So > basically, > somebody needs to take the disk apart and start doing the clean-room data > recovery routine off the disk, trying to read 512 bytes of data at a time > off > known-physically-bad areas of the disk. > > And if your threat model includes adversaries that will do that, then > you *really* need to be using full-disk encryption and thermite in your > counter-defenses. Oh, and a good countermeasure for rubber-hose crypto. ;) > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- FD1D E574 6CAB 2FAF 2921 F22E B8B7 9D0D 99FF A73C http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=tbiehn&op=index&fingerprint=on http://pastebin.com/f6fd606da
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