[103187] in Cypherpunks
Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Mon Sep 21 21:55:02 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:16:12 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:46:03 +0000
> From: Michael Hohensee <mah248@is9.nyu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
> I believe that the idea was to set it up so that BIOS defaults to
> HD-hiding mode.
How do you propose to do this? Via a BIOS setting?
> When you're taking your laptop through customs, you do
> nothing while the machine boots up, the doctored BIOS does its thing,
> and everybody's happy. When you want to get at the stuff on the rest of
> the HD, you reboot and type in your passphrase.
How do you propose to prompt the user for the correct time to type?
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