Re:BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
by arpa on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:31PM
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this is why you should actually have "signs of life" and something _slightly_ illegal on your plausible deniability partition. Just enough dirt to get you into trouble, but not too much trouble. If you're squeeky clean, you get the rubber hose cryptography treatment.
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Re:BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
by fencepost on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:22PM
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Ah, the magical porn partition.
Level of kink up to you.
Re:BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
by Someone on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:55PM
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If you want those signs of life to be convincing, it should include all kinds of history without long gaps, such as:
- email, including recently received and sent emails
- web browser history
- system logs
- software updates
In practice, I think it’s impossible to do that. If the police discovers, for example, that your system logs show your machine was off for a week, but they also just saw you reset it, what do you tell them?
Re:BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
by gambiting on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:05PM
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>>but they also just saw you reset it, what do you tell them?
That you're not a computer expert and have no idea why your computer wasn't keeping logs correctly?
not an expert, yet you set up an encrypted partition?
Re:BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
by gambiting on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:24AM
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Yeah, there was a tutorial online. Thought it was a good idea in case my laptop got stolen. Don't need to be an expert to click through an automated wizard, do I?
"rubberhose him just to be sure"
this is a real problem, yes; i find encrypted volume in swap partition actually provides better plausible deniability. "I was told it should be 2x the size of RAM," - says a guy with 512G of ram and swapoff.