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We also have professional cameras that can be tethered to a laptop and record directly to the encrypted disk. Encrypted camera storage sounds cool, but the film

We also have professional cameras that can be tethered to a laptop and record directly to the encrypted disk. Encrypted camera storage sounds cool, but the filmmaker of Citizen Four could have just tethered to her MacBook.

Edward16 10y ago
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rlpb 10y ago
> could have just I thought the days of wandering around with a camera while having a recorder on a shoulder strap were left behind in the eighties.
- Joeboy 10y ago
  External recorders are still normal for professional video work, but not so much for run and gun documentary stuff.
falcolas 10y ago
But it wouldn't be locked out until the MacBook was shut down. Until then, the keys would be available in memory, and effectively unencrypted. Not much protection against immediate physical seizure.
- cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
  Standard procedure here would be to have the computer plugged into AC power with no battery so you can yank the power the moment anything remotely like a raid to seize happens.
  - falcolas 10y ago
    How do you do this with something without a removable battery, like your average (modern) macbook?
    - cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
      Obviously, you wouldn't do this on a Macbook, and not just because the battery is not removable. IIRC FileVault stores a "forgot my disk" password with iCloud, which is likely subject to subpoena. That assumes there's no law enforcement/nation-state investigative service backdoor in FileVault. The built-in, OS level disk encryption is likely insufficient, so why use a Mac at all here? You could just offboard the footage to a machine running a Free version of Linux running LUKS and then after shooting and in a secure location and manner give the files to somebody to do the video editing on the Mac.
      - Bud 10y ago
        No, that's not correct. FileVault does not store any password with iCloud unless you tell it to. Otherwise, it generates a 24-character password that you have to write down, and that is the only key, other than the user's password, of course. The disk encryption is actually quite adequate on a Mac. We also have no evidence of any backdoors in the encryption in Apple products, and quite a bit of recent evidence that there are no such backdoors.
        cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
        Take a look at Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald's communications and the recording of the footage for Citizenfour as an example here. They had all already stopped relying on any closed system to keep their communications secure. They were all using Tails to communicate through Tor without leaving a minimal unencrypted footprint. At the point where you are relying on Tor to communicate and are explicitly using Tails to keep your communication secret then why would you start relying on a Macbook, running a proprietary OS, with non-open crypto, to hold your secrets if you're already scared the neo-Stazi are going to break down the door and steal your unlocked, decrypted Linux machine that you have all of the trust in the world in? For that reason alone you would skip the Mac.

Edward16 10y ago

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rlpb 10y ago

> could have just I thought the days of wandering around with a camera while having a recorder on a shoulder strap were left behind in the eighties.

Joeboy 10y ago
External recorders are still normal for professional video work, but not so much for run and gun documentary stuff.

falcolas 10y ago

But it wouldn't be locked out until the MacBook was shut down. Until then, the keys would be available in memory, and effectively unencrypted. Not much protection against immediate physical seizure.

cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
Standard procedure here would be to have the computer plugged into AC power with no battery so you can yank the power the moment anything remotely like a raid to seize happens.
- falcolas 10y ago
  How do you do this with something without a removable battery, like your average (modern) macbook?
  - cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
    Obviously, you wouldn't do this on a Macbook, and not just because the battery is not removable. IIRC FileVault stores a "forgot my disk" password with iCloud, which is likely subject to subpoena. That assumes there's no law enforcement/nation-state investigative service backdoor in FileVault. The built-in, OS level disk encryption is likely insufficient, so why use a Mac at all here? You could just offboard the footage to a machine running a Free version of Linux running LUKS and then after shooting and in a secure location and manner give the files to somebody to do the video editing on the Mac.
    - Bud 10y ago
      No, that's not correct. FileVault does not store any password with iCloud unless you tell it to. Otherwise, it generates a 24-character password that you have to write down, and that is the only key, other than the user's password, of course. The disk encryption is actually quite adequate on a Mac. We also have no evidence of any backdoors in the encryption in Apple products, and quite a bit of recent evidence that there are no such backdoors.
      - cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
        Take a look at Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald's communications and the recording of the footage for Citizenfour as an example here. They had all already stopped relying on any closed system to keep their communications secure. They were all using Tails to communicate through Tor without leaving a minimal unencrypted footprint. At the point where you are relying on Tor to communicate and are explicitly using Tails to keep your communication secret then why would you start relying on a Macbook, running a proprietary OS, with non-open crypto, to hold your secrets if you're already scared the neo-Stazi are going to break down the door and steal your unlocked, decrypted Linux machine that you have all of the trust in the world in? For that reason alone you would skip the Mac.