[116975] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "Black
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve bryan)
Tue Aug 24 19:01:06 1999
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:28:10 -0500
To: "John Haggerty" <jhaggert@streetforce.com>
From: steve bryan <sbryan@vendorsystems.com>
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>Hmm.. What would happen if you just planted couple hundred pounds of dynamite
>and had it triggered when anyone entered the home except you via some remote
>signaling device, then when they try to go into your house the whole thing is
>blown to bits investigators, evidence, and all.
There are already laws about schemes of this sort. People with summer
lake cottages tend to have problems with locals who can't stand the
temptation of unoccupied residences. To deal with the frustration of
persistent break-ins some absentee owners resort to 'Rube Goldberg'
trigger devices to punish the scofflaws. Much to their consternation,
though, they tend to lose civil (and even criminal) cases to the
failed perpetrator who gets injured (or killed and his dependents
sue).
I've thought for some time that a PC card solution is probably best.
Have your system, certificates, PGP keys, all on a PC card that you
can always keep with you and boot your system from that. Then the
snoops can try to infect all the other stuff as much as they want but
fail to get anything worthwhile. All the fixed partitions would be
maintained as encrypted partitions that can't be mounted without the
keys that you keep on your PC card. I've heard that firewire drives
may soon include a ROM to allow them to be bootable. They are
physically small, sturdy, with ample capacity, and high bandwidth.
Maybe the scheme can soon be implemented.
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