Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

"Doug Moen" <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:10:40 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.bugtraq,gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities.watch.general,gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure
Message-ID <75a101c38dd8$40064170$1200a70a@watdougmoen>
From: "Rick Wash" <[email protected]>
> This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is
> easy to delete large amounts of data quickly.   Imagine you hear the feds
> knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light
> (aka your data) fly out into the room.   Your data is gone, permanently.
> If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete
everything
> -- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations.   Show me another
> method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
> that quickly.

A ramdisk.

Doug Moen.