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After your equipment has been in the hands of a government, wouldn't it be wise to simply abandon that hardware? Who knows what kind of crap they've installed o
by joncp 12y ago
After your equipment has been in the hands of a government, wouldn't it be wise to simply abandon that hardware? Who knows what kind of crap they've installed on it that is nearly impossible to remove.
- SnacksOnAPlane 12y agoYou can likely just get the raw data from your drives without actually keeping anything executable. Text files and images are fine, but I'm sure there are some formats that you'd have to be extra-careful about.
- keeperofdakeys 12y agohttps://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms08-021 https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms08-021 That is a code execution vulnerability that allows someone to take over your computer when you open an image, and it was inside windows itself.
- ncza 12y agoText and images can easily be tampered with to exploit. In fact, that's a common malware vector. If you have reason to not trust your files, then it's fairly black and white.
- biafra 12y agoThat is why you need to make sure you do not give them your decryption password for your file container. And hope they were not able to compromise your encrypted container in such a way.