Lan Barnes wrote:
2. Amnesty International in a hostile country: The user has two log ons.
As jsixpack, the encrypted drive isn't mounted and the app doesn't show
its menus. As jcool, the drive is mounted and the data is available. The
machine is powered up/down for use. There is a shutdown/umount switch on
jcool's menu. If the door is kicked in
Again. Why does everybody assume this is the main threat (ie. door
kicked in and computer seized)?
One of my favorite "Demotivational" posters:
http://www.fivefourteen.net/motivational-posters/fascism.jpg
Anyone stupid enough to try to seize my computer by force to get it as
evidence is not someone I'm that worried about in a computer sense.
Standard encryption is likely to work well-enough. The fact that they
are likely to beat me senseless is far scarier.
The true foe is someone like the US federal government. They can take
my computer temporarily at a checkpoint and duplicate my hard drive.
Then they can snag my passphrase via all manner of emissions scanners.
Now they have my hard drive and my passphrase, *and* I have no
*knowledge* that they do.
That's scary.
-a
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
