Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 hours agoThis 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.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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).
three@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
lmfao you’re going to need a more robust destruction plan
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You seem to be confused about which side in my scenario is the cops.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 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…
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
First of all, it doesn’t take hours to overwrite several text files and a few binaries. Second of all, I think I know better what my local cops would do. It’s not NSA or Interpol. Lastly, this hypothetical obviously excludes stuff after which ‘motivated investigation’ might come. That kind of data lives in encrypted files tucked in odd places.