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Re: Daytripper

#32

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I have always been curious.. is there a better way of accomplishing this?

Use full-disk encryption (presumably this is table stakes for anyone with this level of paranoia) using two factors - your passphrase decrypts a keyfile, then the keyfile is used to decrypt the partition. If you destroy the keyfile, then even knowledge of the passphrase won't allow you to decrypt the data. This can be used to defeat a rubber-hose attack [0]. Standard security vs. convenience trade-off applies, of cou…

You still need to do something to prevent a cold-boot attack [0].

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

Re: Daytripper

#34
Why is there a receiver, instead of running an app on the receiving system to listen for bluetooth/http/etc messages?

Re: Daytripper

#35

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Use full-disk encryption (presumably this is table stakes for anyone with this level of paranoia) using two factors - your passphrase decrypts a keyfile, then the keyfile is used to decrypt the partition. If you destroy the keyfile, then even knowledge of the passphrase won't allow you to decrypt the data. This can be used to defeat a rubber-hose attack [0]. Standard security vs. convenience trade-off applies, of cou…

You still need to do something to prevent a cold-boot attack [0]. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

Maybe try sdmem: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/sdmem.1.html

Put it in a bash script with the above luks commands and profit.

Re: Daytripper

#36
post #6

Dave was fired because every time his boss walked by his desk he was staring at his desktop.

At his next job, Dave tried the custom setup and his boss now thinks he's always writing emails.

Dave didn't read https://lifehacker.com/look-busy-with-a-fake-desktop-backgro...

Re: Daytripper

#38
Very cool product, but I think $60 for something that looks like max $10 parts is way too expensive.

Re: Daytripper

#39

what's the advantage of using two laser sensors vs a single IR sensor for the motion detection? (other than the badass Mission Impossible factor) edit: I'll leave this comment for posterity, but I previously misunderstood the meanings of the Tx and Rx sensors

And to help anyone else who might be confused, the device comes in two parts, a "transmitter" and a "receiver". But the transmitter detects motion by itself without needing another piece placed on the other side of the door, and the receiver is what plugs into the computer to know when to hide the windows (or execute the custom command).

Re: Daytripper

#40

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> * Execute a custom script rm -rf /*

I have always been curious.. is there a better way of accomplishing this?

Start by not relying on Full Disk Encryption, which you should absolutely have enabled but should probably, from an OPSEC perspective, pretend does not exist.

On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically.

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