[117121] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "BlackBag"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Aug 26 20:16:30 1999
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:52:49 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>It'll look like an iMac (if you don't want that, use an opaque plastic),
>provide for some tempesting, and save you lots of room. You'll still need
>something hot enough to start it up... Not sure if you short out say a large
>NiMH battery pack if that will do the trick, but you do want to avoid
>conventional explosives as they'll be easily "sniffed."
>
>So, anyone know how hot a pack of NiMH's get if shorted, and if that's
>sufficient? :)
Anyone know off the top of their head (or happen to have a
bunch of thermite laying around) if the electric igniters for model
rockets get hot enough to do the job? How about a lightbulb with the
glass removed, and the filament buried in the thermite?
>And what company to throw plastic (no Jeff, I didn't spell it plastique you
>scumball) plans to and have them make you a case? :)
>
>And how much RF densely packed thermite blocks? If this is an issue you could
>buy that flectron cloth stuff and use it as part of the case, or thick copper
>foil, etc... Make it a real work of art. Heh... :)
>
>IMHO, this can be used to take an off the shelf notebook and build it inside a
>new case with these "extra" features...
Use a magnesium case, and just light that up.
>
>Am I gonna build such a thing? Fuck no. But someone else will. Ha! But if
>I do, I'd bet your spook buddies would snap'em up in a heartbeat, and make
>that cypherpunk a millionaire. Yup. Wouldn't surprise me if they're already
>using the same kind of shit we're thinking up here.
We're operating at a very gross, almost "garage" level.
If you have "bucks" to spend. instead of using thermite, you
could simply build your drive cases out of magnesium, and build in
some sort of igniter. Poofta that drive ain't readable any more.
The overall idea is to embarass them. Not that that is hard,
they tend to do it to themselves.
--
Interfaces matter. You need mathematical bones; engineering muscle;
but you won't replicate without beautiful skin. Bits, transistors,
wires, code, gummint velveeta is free. Will is expensive. Gutenburg.
Smith. Ford. Moore. Postel. Steam engines were neat. Steam
engines pulling trains were amazing. Computers were neat. Computers
networked were amazing. Warning grunts are useful. The ability of a
charistmatic speaker to fuck with your head is disastrous.--Blank
Frank(anonymously)
