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slightly relevant: To protect his privacy and that of his clients, Mitnick encrypts all the confidential data on his laptops, transmits it over the Internet fo
by snissn 16y ago
slightly relevant:
To protect his privacy and that of his clients, Mitnick encrypts all the confidential data on his laptops, transmits it over the Internet for storage on servers in the U.S., and wipes it from the computer before returning from any international trips, just in case officials decide to search or seize his equipment. He also encrypts his hard drive. And now, he says he is going to keep a "clone" of his MacBook at home so he will have an exact duplicate of it if it is ever seized.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10054569-83.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10054569-83.html
- sev 16y agoWhy would he tell people where he keeps the clone?
- davidwparker 16y agoTo make people think he's keeping it there but he really isn't? A bluff?
- sev 16y agoThat's what I thought for a sec...and then realized he probably wouldn't prefer to be searched, even if they weren't going to find anything.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoI thought analysts took a dim view of security by obscurity.
- ams6110 16y agoI think the dim view is on using obscurity as your only or main security approach. However leading attackers down blind alleys, in addition to having real security measures in place, doesn't seem to me to be entirely worthless (IANA Security Analyst).
- philwelch 16y agoUnlike the things you take with you when entering the country, your home is still legally protected from unwarranted search and seizure.
- levesque 16y agoIf they really think something is going on, mandates will be emitted.
- philwelch 16y agoThey're called "warrants", and they require probable cause. The US is a weird country. We have insanely powerful and arguably excessive civil liberties in some cases (advocating fringe political viewpoints, owning guns, the exclusionary rule) combined with crazy police state antics whenever the feds can get away with them.