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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:53:30 -0700
At 03:04 PM 8/22/98 +0100, Ian Brown wrote:
>> "Do you mind if we install and run our Customs2000 program on your
machine?"
>
>What we need is ScanSafe2000 that you run on your laptop before travelling
>overseas. It would:
>
>* Move all un-needed sensitive files (*.pgp, *.pwl, etc. etc.) to local
>removable media
>
>* Securely wipe all swapfiles, deleted files and 'free' diskspace on your
>hard disk
>
>* Perhaps also empty Web etc. caches in case of whitehouse.com-type
>'mistakes' ;)
>
>Ian.
>
There's already tools which will wipe your browser cache, history, etc.
There are also plenty of file-encryption tools.
But there is personal info all over. Your email package may include
very valuable info about your contacts. Your hard drive may have your
passphrase-protected public key. And your swap space, as many have
mentioned, contains all kinds of not so ephemeral bits. You don't want to
worry about each app. You don't want to worry that they'll ask why you're
carrying
a zip disk on your person. You want them not to notice; if they notice, you
want to give them a distracting 'duress' file, not the real one, and fake
a blush.
Maybe you just need a CDROM burner and a label maker.
People make custom music CDs for themselves now. If you record
from analog, who's to say the LSBs are not benign amplifier noise?
"Yes, mate, that's a recording of god save the queen off the dear ol BBC.
I figured I'd listen to it when I got 'omesick, you know."
Rabbits and foxes just keep getting faster..
You really want the persistant version of link-level encryption: you want
to encrypt whole partitions. I haven't been brave enough to try
SFS on my machines, but when I looked into it some months ago, I thought
that looked like the best package. YMMV.
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There is a secret message embedded in the phosphor of this period.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01