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How would you look suspicious? What if you stick to communication through innocently used domains using new accounts in internet cafes?
by macca321 15y ago
How would you look suspicious? What if you stick to communication through innocently used domains using new accounts in internet cafes?
- bhousel 15y agoThere are a lot of trust issues in sending data that way. 1. First you have to trust the machine in the internet cafe. It might have viruses or keyloggers. You can maybe get around this by using your own laptop, but not allowed in most places. 2. Next you have to trust the network. It could be monitored or logged. You could be vulnerable to MITM attacks or DNS poisoning. SSL is not guaranteed to get you any real protection in this situation. 3. So you have a compromised network - you can get around this by just PGP encrypting whatever you want to send to the receiver (assuming you and your receiver have done some kind of sane, out-of-band key exchange), or using steganography tools to hide your video inside some other file, but.. 4. Now you are uploading large encrypted files to 'innocently used domains' (whatever that means) from an internet cafe. And walking around with a laptop with either keypairs or steganography software on it.. That's suspicious. It's just far easier to use an external drive with TrueCrypt on it to send your sensitive information. You can have a hidden volume containing your really sensitive data, and a main volume where you can store some files that are plausibly sensitive enough to warrant TrueCrypt protection, e.g. a porn stash or some confidential business data.