Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit

kcseb@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And if you use BitLocker, do NOT backup your recovery key to the cloud!

  gizmodo.com/microsoft-reportedly-turned-over-bitl…

  Print out out, give it to a friend, don’t mention it via electronic means (email, text, Snapchat, YouTube, and so on…)

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And if you use BitLocker, don’t!

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  • JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I think I’ve heard if you have a Microsoft account it automatically gets backed up

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even better is to memorize it.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hide it in a poem in a leather bound book at the end of a trap-filled dungeon.

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      • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ll hide it at the end of my mix tape.

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      • Pilon23@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Now when you say a trap-filled dungeon. What exactly do you mean?

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This person should also turn off their computer and remove the RAM so it’s zeroed out if it gets siezed.

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Full disk encryption doesn’t help much if the pc is running anyway since the key will be in memory

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    • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How will they carry the running pc if it’s not a laptop?

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      • frog@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They have a battery attached to flat wires. When you give a couple millimeters of room from the plug, they insert the flat wires and the computer will be powered from the battery.

        If the computer is logged in, they have a USB device that mimics a mouse. It makes the mouse pointer move back and forth to prevent it from going to sleep or the screen saver.

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      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They use forensic tools to clone the RAM before moving it. Probably depends on exploits so whether it will work may depend on your OS, but they have access to the hardware so there are a lot of possibilities.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is where I think NFC may finally be useful. If cops show up, I slide my phone by a hidden NFC tag, and an http request is sent to my desktop machine. Everything incriminating is wiped and the computer is turned off, before the cops can walk to the room.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Better to have a “spare” pc under your desk, with the real one hidden.

      Cheaper and you won’t accidentally wipe your pc all the time.

      But what are you all having on up your PCs??

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    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unless you have tied the NFC to an arc wielding torch how would proper data disposal process runs its course fast enough? You live in a manor with very long hallways?

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Most of really nasty data is text or a few questionable apps, and should take very little time. Video and audio present a problem, but I think they can be speedily wiped by nuking the metadata parts, making recovery and identification difficult. Not sure how resilient modern formats are to data loss, but afaik e.g. AVI is quite reliant on the description of the stream (which iirc is inconveniently placed at the end of the file).

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If it can be proven you did that, that’s gonna look real bad in court.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can get in legal trouble for turning off your PC?

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s no law against googling how to dispose of a body, but if you do, and you’re a suspect in a murder, it’s a real bad look for you.

        Same story here. Probably legal, but definitely not a good look.

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If it’s proven that you did it, you are getting locked up anyway.

      In 99% it is better to not say anything or indict yourself

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