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Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new US... by abstractbarista on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:21PM (#24083599)
Eh, it's worth it, depending on what you're doing. I'd much rather get in trouble for a hard drive full of zeroes, than them knowing what was on it beforehand.

Today, you should encrypt everything, and cut power before physical access is obtained. Will that count as "tampering"? I was just turning off my computer. No, I do not remember the key.

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Re:Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new US... by codezero on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:47PM (#24088521)
Looking back, federal authorities really only came when they had the evidence they needed already, and local authorities were way too far behind to know what was going on (in the 90s).

In practice, the only real protection we had (those of us in my social group) was that we were minors, and lucky that laws hadn't caught up yet.

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