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I find that not applying electricity to computers makes them perform with flawless reliability. I had an old, dorm refrigerator-sized server as an end table for
by EvanAnderson 6y ago
I find that not applying electricity to computers makes them perform with flawless reliability. I had an old, dorm refrigerator-sized server as an end table for many years. It never failed.
Edit: Nobody else ever gave it instructions that went counter to mine, either. Security vulnerabilities are 100% non-exploitable without power. I should probably start an anti-APT business with that knowledge.
- vorpalhex 6y agoTomorrow on HN: "Powering air-gapped computers remotely using some spare copper wire and a bit of python..." There's a reason the old go to for secure deletion was throwing your hard drive into a wood chipper... (though that's bad for the environment, please don't do that)
- EvanAnderson 6y agoCurses! Defeated by your powers of induction!
- ASalazarMX 6y agoI guess it's pretty bad for the wood chipper too.
- chokeartist 6y ago> There's a reason the old go to for secure deletion was throwing your hard drive into a wood chipper... (though that's bad for the environment, please don't do that) Data leakage is more painful. By yes you are correct. A correctly implemented FDE system should allow for crypto-shredding to negate the need for physical device destruction.
- morsch 6y agoWe had mandatory registration at restaurants here when they were still open. Some had paper forms, especially initially, others used web forms. People were worried that it would be easy to grab the filled out forms and get a restaurant's guests' phone numbers and addresses (and it probably was). Predictably, one of the rushed web forms had non-existant security, making it easy to get all restaurants guests' phone numbers and addresses.
- bradgessler 6y agoI find persisting data to /dev/null is very effective for highly secure and consistent data storage requirements. It’s also very performant.