[117128] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Aug 26 22:06:46 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 03:42:58 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908270142.DAA10482@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> >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 flashi ng screen on their x-ray machine with "THERMITE -
> DETAIN - CALL CLUEFUL SUPERVIS OR" 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.
Whatta buncha retards. You losers go on and on about this crap.
Look, any emergency alarm system has one important property which you
assholes are ignoring: false alarms are far more common than real ones.
Ask anyone who's ever heard a car alarm.
If you start loading your systems with explosives or self-destruct
devices, 99.9% of the time they go off when you don't want them to.
Only a complete and total idiot would walk around with a bomb in his
pocket. Yes, that means you.
Even with the less lethal destruct mechanisms, all you're buying is a
complete pain in the ass when oops, your data all got wiped just because
you had a power glitch or you dropped something you shouldn't.
The idea of booby trapped data wiping is a stupid fantasy which has no
basis in reality. If you lame fuckups ever did manage to do something to
attract the cops, the self destruct probably wouldn't even work anyway.
Anyone stupid enough to try to use something like this is too incompetent
to make it work.
