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Tor-ramdisk
- mukyu 15y agoA server without disks can just as easily serve files as it can run a Tor node. I fail to see how this solves any problem or is useful deterrence of the police seizing your box.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> I fail to see how this solves any problem or is useful deterrence of the police seizing your box. It's not a deterrence to seizing the box. It's a deterrence to finding anything on the box after seizing it.
- jethroalias97 15y agoAnd the arms race continues. I expect this will work only as long as law enforcement doesn't recognize it's a ram only box, after which they'd just keep it plugged in or drop it into liquid nitrogen to preserve the bits if they cared enough.
- vectorpush 15y agoEasier said than done, power can be cut in an instant or even automatically (triggered by unauthorized entrance to a facility, for example).
- jethroalias97 15y agoIf they get to it in time, that probably won't matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/technology/22chip.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/technology/22chip.html
- jpdoctor 15y agoIt will give a whole new meaning for when cops shout "Freeze!".
- anamax 15y agoDynamic ram refresh intervals are mindbogglingly conservative, especially if you're not running near the upper-temperature limit. In other words, DRAM doesn't lose information anywhere near as fast as the refresh intervals might suggest.
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- there 15y agohttp://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php
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- aw3c2 15y agoYes, and I would rather have law enforcement find nothing incriminating on my harddisk than being accused of obfuscation or destroying of evidence (this might be FUD).
- scrod 15y agoPerfect! Combine with your choice of the following for plug-n-play subversion: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linux-system-squishes-into-Ethernet-connector/ http://pwnieexpress.com/ http://www.gumstix.com/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/
- robot 15y agoNever thought uClinux would be used for such purpose.
- kurumo 15y agoNow, how hard would it be to design a sort of minimal virtual machine that can run this in parallel with e.g. a Windows host OS? Distribute it via some existing delivery vector, et voila...
- borism 15y agoin case of search, wouldn't law enforcement agency seize ALL your equipment, not just the one box you point them to saying: "here's my diskless tor relay. take it!" ?
- darklajid 15y agoSo? The idea is not to protect your browsing habits. It's to protect the users of your node. They won't leave a (permanent) trace. Of course if they go for your devices they can look at your disks and see what _you_ were doing. Different thing though. The important thing is storing the ssl key in a secure manner.
- JonnieCache 15y agoSo, these days I need to run my tor box on a ramdisk, which has its RAM kept nice and warm, and has its power cut automatically by the intruder alarm. Just so I know where things stand. If I'm gonna go rigging things up to alarm systems, may as well just set up a thermite reaction TBH.