[ale] [OT] Mojave Experiment

[Geoffrey Myers]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com 
> > wrote:
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> On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> > try a belt sander on the platters. By the time that data stream is
> > reassembled, our sun will be a red giant.
> >
> > Realistically, a 1T+ alternating magnetic field (60Hz) for 5 seconds
> > with the drive not stationary in the field will render it useless to
> > even the most sophisticated STM/AFM methods. This will also render
> > the heads useless as well.
> >
> > A hand-held bulk tape erasure moving across the top cover of a drive
> > for about 30 seconds will render the contents unrecoverable to
> > "normal" people. Most 3-letter named organizations can pull data off
> > from this. This will not destroy the drives ability to be used again
> > like the above method.
>
> Well I guess it really depends on who you're trying to protect your
> data from.  I would suspect that 10-20 overwrites of random data would
> be sufficient for all except the three letter government
> organizations.  Oh, wait, that's likely who most folks are worried
> about. ;)
>
> I like the idea of hiding secret data steganographically in really  
> good pR0n images. That will slow 'em down :-)

I like hiding totally useless data steganographically in really good  
pR0n images.  That will really piss them off... ;)

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Geoffrey Myers