-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:06:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> If I was in your position I might consider putting some bulk >> demagnetizers near my hard drives with a panic switch, with backups to a > > Doesn't work, you'd need too many Teslas. Plastique or thermite would work. > Cryptographic filesystem would work, since you only would have to lose > power for a couple seconds. >
It might be a bit late for buying and placing explosives or incindieries. =:oD In any case, I'm not about to give advice on explosives, etc. - I'm not anonymized from here, forgetting the fact that it's a moot idea. A cryptographic filesystem is a day late and a dollar short... however, he might be able to start overwriting with something like Darik's Boot & Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net To finish would take forever, but IIRC, the Gutmann-style wipe starts with a pseudorandom stream - and if even a single one of those were to complete before they got the drive, they'd need to stick the thing in a cleanroom to get anything (again, IIRC). They don't always do that... software usually comes first. I guess it depends on the value of the data. If something really, really nasty got relayed through your node - like an [alleged] "terrorist threat" or similar hogwash - they might use such a method. But, DBAN's a free, practical, and non-violent idea. - -- F. Fox CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUyhabgkxCAzYBCMRAsRVAJ9qTRxiTe8iCT2ntp/4WQ6HST6hpgCfYFMD 3GFNNSinPPreEFdMUKfS2qQ= =Z6VG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----