On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:35:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
