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Wipe devices before packing. Arrive in country then restore backup remotely.
How do you do that with 1.5TB of video? My Lightroom library of stills alone is 900GB. Have you ever used hotel wifi? Give me a break.
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Source? How is it possible to install malware when the disk is encrypted?
You modify the bootloader to grab the password on next decryption. The bootloader is in cleartext on the disk, otherwise the machine couldn't boot. More advanced versions would involve modifying the BIOS to add a SMM-mode hook. That way the malware runs completely outside the view of the OS. Alternatively, any device with DMA access could have its firmware altered to read sensitive information from memory. Physical s…
Mine isn't - I have GRUB installed to my BIOS chip, and I decrypt the single encrypted partition from there.
>More advanced versions would involve modifying the BIOS to add a SMM-mode hook.
That one could still get me though, yeah.
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>I'm going to start putting a USB nuke stick in my luggage in an envelope. Just for fun. Maybe I'll label the envelope something nonsensical like "12-16" just to make sure people know it's useless. I love the idea but I can't help but think that even with a completely airtight reason to be traveling with that item (e.g. you're a security researcher) you would be accused of terrorism. Somehow.
That's the problem with Authoritarian (Liberal and Conservative) interpretations of the Constitution. USBkill sticks are non-regulated items, so you don't NEED the government's permission or a "good reason" to possess them. Unfortunately, Liberals have weakened the 2nd Amendment to mean "only if you have a good reason", and weakened the 1st Amendment to mean "as long as you don't offend someone", while Conservatives…
The desire to strengthen old laws is interesting. Why is it that they seem better than the laws we can create today, given our advancements in education and ethics? Pining for the past due to the absence of 'something better'. Why does that 'something better' not exist?
Rights are granted with the intent to increase power/wealth for those who grant rights. Based on results, those in power no longer believe that granting rights to commoners is in their best interest.
Average citizens have less impact on that now. The constitution and amendments come from a time when they applied to fewer, more powerful people. The erosion of those rights is to be expected unless you're living in an altruistic utopia.
Highly recommend you watch CGP Grey's Rules for Rulers for another perspective.
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X-ray machine screenings are not placebo. They aren't perfect, but if you put a handgun in your carry on, there's a pretty good chance they'll find it. And yes I know there are failures. But it's not reasonable to say that the current security check is placebo only. Ask yourself: would you put a gun or knife in your carry on to prove the point? The 90% figure I made up as an example. I don't know the real figure. But…
Even yourself called it security theater because people have looked at TSA security and never found a single case where it prevented a threat to a airplane. To quote: "Security theater is the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it" Security theater do not cause 90% prevention. And to be clear, I know several pe…
If you were in charge of a plot, would you base your plan around getting a gun through airport security?
Nope. You'd do something else where you are more likely to succeed.
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Good chat, despite it's mildly aggressive nature. Here's what: So, an organisation that basically labels everything in the world as either a potential carcinogen or carcinogen [0] when the second lowest score they award still reads as 'potential carcinogen' is more powerful than actual evidence, accrued across enormous longitudinal studies, first from scandinavia [1] but backed significantly by australia [2] and inte…
Thank you for the information, very interesting. Increased inflammatory response seems a reasonable potential mechanism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25251956 Perhaps it doesn't cause cancer per se, but promotes tumor growth or otherwise creates a more favorable environment.
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Good chat, despite it's mildly aggressive nature. Here's what: So, an organisation that basically labels everything in the world as either a potential carcinogen or carcinogen [0] when the second lowest score they award still reads as 'potential carcinogen' is more powerful than actual evidence, accrued across enormous longitudinal studies, first from scandinavia [1] but backed significantly by australia [2] and inte…
Thank you for the information, very interesting. Increased inflammatory response seems a reasonable potential mechanism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25251956 Perhaps it doesn't cause cancer per se, but promotes tumor growth or otherwise creates a more favorable environment.
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Even yourself called it security theater because people have looked at TSA security and never found a single case where it prevented a threat to a airplane. To quote: "Security theater is the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it" Security theater do not cause 90% prevention. And to be clear, I know several pe…
Such strong assertions! Would you take a handgun through airport security? If you were in charge of a plot, would you base your plan around getting a gun through airport security? Nope. You'd do something else where you are more likely to succeed.
And the assertions are not mine. Security researchers has published multiple articles on it, and finding commonalities between police and military is just public data. There is not a single security expect that claim that airport screening is cost effective form of security. Feel free to prove me wrong.
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How do you do that with 1.5TB of video? My Lightroom library of stills alone is 900GB. Have you ever used hotel wifi? Give me a break.
Obviously you only wipe sensitive data/documents, not movies or torrents
What am I to do? Networks simply aren't fast enough to deal with my data sizes.