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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LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 hours agoThis person should also turn off their computer and remove the RAM so it’s zeroed out if it gets siezed.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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??
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?
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).
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Nha my dude you’re lying to yourself if you think that it is nearly enough to survive the level of forensics that will happen in case of a motivated investigation. You need the whole multipass erasure and overwriting or you’re toast. It takes hours…
three@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
The boys and I have a racist group chat and my hard drive is full of kiddie porn and audio recordings of women peeing in public restrooms.
lmfao you’re going to need a more robust destruction plan
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
If it can be proven you did that, that’s gonna look real bad in court.
mech@feddit.org 11 hours ago
You can get in legal trouble for turning off your PC?
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.
msage@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Turning off your PC makes you look bad? What the fuck.
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
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
B0rax@feddit.org 11 hours ago
How will they carry the running pc if it’s not a laptop?
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.
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.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 10 hours ago
Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?
B0rax@feddit.org 9 hours ago
At least in Germany, I would be surprised if the cops could point to the RAM inside a computer. They will not open it before they take it with them.