1998-09-21 - Re: Stego-empty hard drives… (fwd)

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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
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UTC Datetime: 1998-09-21 11:48:08 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:48:08 +0800

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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:48:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:46:03 +0000
> From: Michael Hohensee <mah248@is9.nyu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)

> I believe that the idea was to set it up so that BIOS defaults to
> HD-hiding mode.

How do you propose to do this? Via a BIOS setting?

> When you're taking your laptop through customs, you do
> nothing while the machine boots up, the doctored BIOS does its thing,
> and everybody's happy.  When you want to get at the stuff on the rest of
> the HD, you reboot and type in your passphrase.

How do you propose to prompt the user for the correct time to type?


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