Re: Hard Drive Booby Trap

From: Goober (Goober_at_myplace.com)
Date: 06/09/03


Date: 9 Jun 2003 20:33:07 GMT

Here's some degausser's, but their expensive:
http://www.datadev.com/

"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
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> On 9 Jun 2003 15:26:34 GMT, Goober wrote:
>
> > But I'm interested in knowing if there is a software that will
> > erase your hard drive when it is accessed with out your permission?
>
> Think about that statement for a minute. What would you do to foil it.
>
> All they would have to do is put the disk into another system.
> make a complete disk copy, use the copy and start looking at it.
>
> The only method at that point would to have all the data encripted.
>
> Only other solution, replace your disk with ram, add switches which
> disconnect power to ram if case is opened, and get an UPS to keep the
> machine running and hope they do not know that you set it up that way.
>
>
>

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