[117122] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Aug 26 20:46:44 1999
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:28:06 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>>Better. Use thermite. Since its only almuminum powder and rust, it
>>shouldn't look like more than a large mass of metal, (of which the >case has
>a lot of anyway.)
>
>Won't this be one of the primary things good little security guards
>are trained to recognize?(even if their training consists of
>teaching them that a big flashing screen on their x-ray machine with
>"THERMITE - DETAIN - CALL CLUEFUL SUPERVISOR" means they should take
>action)
>Stick with electrics.a nice camera flash capacitor's energy driven
>through your memory ought to do it. operating system on flash rom,
>nothing on the hard drive but encrypted data (random bits,just
>noise,honest) and decoy data.
Why even use a hard drive? With memory cards being around 100
meg for what, 400 bucks? you can store a LOT of compressed encrypted
data on that disk. Use the JavaOS on a StrongArm, and you've got a
graphic interface that (supposedly) will fit in an 8 meg flash rom,
your applications--if they are properly written shouldn't take up
more than 20 or 30 megs (uncompressed), so that leaves you at least
70 for your personal communications. Should be plenty.
Of course, you can't run word on that, but then again that's
not a bad thing.
(anyone want to help me write a business plan and get VC
funding to build one of these? I think I can get it out under $800
for a fully functional unit damn few moving parts (mostly latches and
hinges).
--
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)
