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.
- 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?