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Ian Brown (I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:56:23 +0100
This is a cool idea...
> 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)
As David says though,
> Rabbits and foxes just keep getting faster...
That's why ScanSafe would move anything you wouldn't want Customs to get
their hands on (secring.pgp, BusinessPlan1998-2000.pgp etc. ;) off your
hard disk and wipe that and your swap and temp files securely. I didn't
intend that you would take that data with you -- you would leave it at
home, well out of reach at the border. Of course, you could leave it on a
secure network-accessible filesystem so that when you reached your
destination you could put it straight back on your laptop.
> You really want the persistant version of link-level encryption: you want
> to encrypt whole partitions.
Yes, but again, rabbits and foxes.
Ian.
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