[103196] in Cypherpunks
Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lazlo Toth)
Tue Sep 22 00:31:04 1998
In-Reply-To: <199809220116.UAA20070@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:37:06 -0400
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Lazlo Toth <lazlototh@hempseed.com>
Reply-To: Lazlo Toth <lazlototh@hempseed.com>
On or about 8:16 PM -0500 9/21/98, Jim Choate wrote:
>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?
Yes.
>> 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?
Pressing an obscure key combination during bootup to trigger the password
prompt should do the trick.
-Lazlo
