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TrueCrypt 6.0 released
40hz:
the reason for something like this is those insane border patrol laptop searches.
-f0dder (July 07, 2008, 08:13 AM)
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I wonder if all those "insane" laptop searches were really just a dry run for addressing the very real problems that may be caused by all those laptops coming back home from the Olympics.
China has been pretty aggressive with their "research" into the military uses of cyber technology. They have also made it abundantly clear that they will be inclined view any preemptive security measures that single them out as an act of war.
Crazy border searches? Yeah - crazy like a fox.
Stoic Joker:
justice: you'd notice it yourself because your partitions would obviously be resized :) - obviously the reason for something like this is those insane border patrol laptop searches. Now you can boot a clean XP install and let the customs people rummage through the drive, and keep all your NDA'ed work documents and client records safe in the hidden OS, without being retained for not giving up your decryption keys.
-f0dder (July 07, 2008, 08:13 AM)
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Or you could skip all the overhead that comes with encryption and stash 4GB of anything in an Alternate Data Stream under a text file containing a recipe for a chocolate cherry bunt cake. If you don't stand out, and at first glance your puter is boaring, next...
Encryption is viewed far too much like a magic bullet, when it's really just an excuse to be sloppy with other less snazy sounding aspects of security that whould have actually worked.
(Here's a Job I Actually Worked)
A major medical software company charged a doctor $5,000 (Mid-shelf VPN router + labor) to setup a VPN (Yahoo! encryption) so they could access their "server" which was one of 3 XP machines in their office network. Connection required only a standard Windows VPN connector, username, & password.
...Username & password were both the Dr's name in all lower case letters ... I went ballistic.
justice:
That alternate data stream problem seems quite severe, look at this little bundle of joy : http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Alternate_Data_Streams.html
tomos:
That alternate data stream problem seems quite severe, look at this little bundle of joy : http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Alternate_Data_Streams.html
-justice (July 08, 2008, 03:21 AM)
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scary
jgpaiva:
Interesting link, justice!
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