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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on August 23, 2004, 05:13:07 pm

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: WMCoolmon on August 23, 2004, 05:13:07 pm

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2000/10/31/0481/1037

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: phreak on August 23, 2004, 05:24:07 pm

thanks for linking to a 4 year old story.

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: WMCoolmon on August 23, 2004, 05:30:22 pm

Bah, I thought it was new. It was linked to on Slashdot (front-page) today...

'course, that doesn't exactly make me feel much better considering the look of the laws lately. :blah:

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: Rictor on August 23, 2004, 05:52:48 pm

If I ever have anything valuable on my computer, the way I will do it is this: I have two passwords. One of them lets you in as normal, and the other passes a few hundred volts through the hard-drive. Just tell the FBI/CIA/Mossad/Aliens the wrong password and -presto- no incriminating evidence.

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: phreak on August 23, 2004, 06:17:27 pm

of course this guy was a dumbass anyway for snooping around a hi-profile hacked website HOURS after it got hacked.  

At least they let him have his porn back.

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: Stealth on August 23, 2004, 06:50:59 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Rictor
If I ever have anything valuable on my computer, the way I will do it is this: I have two passwords. One of them lets you in as normal, and the other passes a few hundred volts through the hard-drive. Just tell the FBI/CIA/Mossad/Aliens the wrong password and -presto- no incriminating evidence.

1)  so that's the way you do it, eh?  could you please be so kind as to explain to me how you hooked this all up? i'd be interested in doing the same on my computer........ and i'm sure 10,000 other users would too

2)  you'll notice they didn't ask him to "log on the computer" or anything... they just let him keep actual PHYSICAL backups he had (his "junk box".) and they just took the computer.  i'm sure their engineers are able to get the contents of a hard drive without using the user's log in.  shoot, even i can do that.

3)  all that will do is fry the hard drive itself, not the hard DISK.  you'll be amazed with the technology out nowdays what they can do, particularly since all the data is still intact on the disk.

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: Rictor on August 23, 2004, 06:57:21 pm

jeez, who pissed in your cheerios...

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: Stealth on August 23, 2004, 06:58:55 pm

i'm not pissed.  i'm just curious how you hooked this up, because i would have absolutely no clue how to.

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: Rictor on August 23, 2004, 07:05:48 pm

notice the refference to Mossad and Aliens, two non-existant entities. Which means, I have no idea how to hook it up, I just though it was kind of a neat concept, that is until you went and shot it down ;) ;)

Title: Oh, the joys of "security"
Post by: Stealth on August 23, 2004, 08:30:44 pm

oh so you lied.  thought so ;)

you actually had me excited for a minute there.  just a minute :p