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This seems about as likely to work as hiding emails in the draft folder and not sending them. Computer forensics have looked at all the bytes on the disk, not j

This seems about as likely to work as hiding emails in the draft folder and not sending them. Computer forensics have looked at all the bytes on the disk, not just the active files reachable from the root directory, for decades.

tyingq 7y ago
I mentioned it as an additional layer. And it's not always a sophisticated adversary that might find it. Snowden fooled everyone with an sd card inside a Rubick's cube.
- kohtatsu 7y ago
  Snowden did suggest that scene in the movie, but didn't say he'd actually smuggled anything like that. https://www.vulture.com/2016/09/edward-snowden-snowden-rubiks-cube.html https://www.vulture.com/2016/09/edward-snowden-snowden-rubik... > “First of all, I just wanted to say that none of us know [how it happened],” Stone said at the Q&A, when asked about how they came up with it. “[Snowden]’s the only one who knows, and one day he may reveal it. And number two, it was his idea — it was a suggestion that we responded to and ran with.” I'd imagine they would have done forensics if he was caught with an sd card at a checkpoint, but I'm not sure one would set off a metal detector in the first place. It's more likely a security org would epoxy the sd and usb slots on computers with confidential data, or have audits for any usb devices the hosts encounter.
  - tyingq 7y ago
    Some more context... "He [Snowden] said that the Rubik’s cube was put in for the film and he wouldn’t be divulging how he smuggled out information. However, he added, everyone in the office did have a Rubik’s cube. “So they were floating around and coming in and out all the time,” he said." https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/09/snowden-rubiks-cube-what-really-happened-how-did-he-to-smuggle-out-information-security-guard-movie-accurate/ https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/09/snowden-rubiks-cube-... To me he's at least suggesting a similar glaring shortfall in CIA processes that let him smuggle it out.

tyingq 7y ago

I mentioned it as an additional layer. And it's not always a sophisticated adversary that might find it. Snowden fooled everyone with an sd card inside a Rubick's cube.

kohtatsu 7y ago
Snowden did suggest that scene in the movie, but didn't say he'd actually smuggled anything like that. https://www.vulture.com/2016/09/edward-snowden-snowden-rubiks-cube.html https://www.vulture.com/2016/09/edward-snowden-snowden-rubik... > “First of all, I just wanted to say that none of us know [how it happened],” Stone said at the Q&A, when asked about how they came up with it. “[Snowden]’s the only one who knows, and one day he may reveal it. And number two, it was his idea — it was a suggestion that we responded to and ran with.” I'd imagine they would have done forensics if he was caught with an sd card at a checkpoint, but I'm not sure one would set off a metal detector in the first place. It's more likely a security org would epoxy the sd and usb slots on computers with confidential data, or have audits for any usb devices the hosts encounter.
- tyingq 7y ago
  Some more context... "He [Snowden] said that the Rubik’s cube was put in for the film and he wouldn’t be divulging how he smuggled out information. However, he added, everyone in the office did have a Rubik’s cube. “So they were floating around and coming in and out all the time,” he said." https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/09/snowden-rubiks-cube-what-really-happened-how-did-he-to-smuggle-out-information-security-guard-movie-accurate/ https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/09/snowden-rubiks-cube-... To me he's at least suggesting a similar glaring shortfall in CIA processes that let him smuggle it out.