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Use a machine that is used for absolutely nothing else.
How many of them actually do?
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IANAL, but I'd be surprised if the police was allowed to raid me, launch tear gas through my window and shoot me in the head. Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't. If it did, I'm sure it would blow up into a huge scandal. I am worried about government agencies intercepting my traffic / communications because it does happen, it's really hard to find out unless you know what you…
> Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't. Spend a little time in here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warrant+no+knock+raid+mistake&t=ca... Or here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warrant++raid+mistake+death&t=cano... Or here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/swat-t... I'm still waiting for the scandal.
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Police "techniques" involve guns, tear gas, helicopters, etc. At any time the police could in theory fly to your house, launch tear gas into your windows, and shoot you in the head as you run out. And I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly worried about that happening to the point where I want to take guns, tear gas, and helicopters away from the police. This is the FBI taking down criminals engaging in a clear…
IANAL, but I'd be surprised if the police was allowed to raid me, launch tear gas through my window and shoot me in the head. Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't. If it did, I'm sure it would blow up into a huge scandal. I am worried about government agencies intercepting my traffic / communications because it does happen, it's really hard to find out unless you know what you…
how are you sure of that? Do you honestly think the public is privy to the movements of the people in charge?
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Air gapped with new hardware: "Since I started working with the Snowden documents, I bought a new computer that has never been connected to the internet. If I want to transfer a file, I encrypt the file on the secure computer and walk it over to my internet computer, using a USB stick. To decrypt something, I reverse the process. This might not be bulletproof, but it's pretty good." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2…
Given what we know about USB sticks, especially their use in Iran, you would have to be ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARDED to trust them. Oh so he encrypted his files, and walked them between his stand alone and his internet machines. Yeah, okay this established the file's integrity, and that's just fantastic. But what assurance does he have that the USB stick isn't getting infected on the internet machine, and then deployi…
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Given what we know about USB sticks, especially their use in Iran, you would have to be ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARDED to trust them. Oh so he encrypted his files, and walked them between his stand alone and his internet machines. Yeah, okay this established the file's integrity, and that's just fantastic. But what assurance does he have that the USB stick isn't getting infected on the internet machine, and then deployi…
It's different if you own your own USB stick and only use that stick, and have the hosts configured correctly. Arbitrary USB devices picked up off the ground or provided by malicious people do terrify me, mainly because they can be keyboards or whatever in usb-stick physical packaging.
This is actually a pretty good attack. The only problem I see is the usefulness of the evidence that the attack gathers. Visiting an FBI warning over Tor isn't illegal, so appearing in some child-porn-user database because you were curious about how the exploit worked is a little disturbing, given the stigma child porn has. I'd also like to see the legal theory they used to seize control of someone's computer. Did a…
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Air gapped with new hardware: "Since I started working with the Snowden documents, I bought a new computer that has never been connected to the internet. If I want to transfer a file, I encrypt the file on the secure computer and walk it over to my internet computer, using a USB stick. To decrypt something, I reverse the process. This might not be bulletproof, but it's pretty good." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2…
Stuxnet jumped an air gap.
KDE/Gnome do the same thing, and there are possible attacks there.