Hey Eugene, go fuck yourself ok? Have you actually tested using a magnetic field for this, no. Seems to me you're the one talking out of dev/ass, cuz you are one. And don't put it past someone to wire a plastique device to the hard drive, seems like a perfect solution for some terrorist, maybe a distant cousin of yours?
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:20:24 +0100, "Eugen Leitl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service
