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Sean A. Walberg (sean@escape.ca)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:45:48 -0500 (CDT)
How about a custom BIOS that returns empty sectors, ie makes the hard
drive look empty? (assuming "Customs2000" runs through the bios which I'd
venture to say is quite reasonable)
Sean
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, David Honig wrote:
> 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?"
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> >What we need is ScanSafe2000 that you run on your laptop before travelling
> >overseas. It would:
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> >* Move all un-needed sensitive files (*.pgp, *.pwl, etc. etc.) to local
> >removable media
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> >* Securely wipe all swapfiles, deleted files and 'free' diskspace on your
> >hard disk
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> >* Perhaps also empty Web etc. caches in case of whitehouse.com-type
> >'mistakes' ;)
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> >Ian.
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> There's already tools which will wipe your browser cache, history, etc.
> There are also plenty of file-encryption tools.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> "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."
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> You really want the persistant version of link-level encryption: you want
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> 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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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01