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

Seth Breidbart <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:54:12 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure,gmane.comp.security.bugtraq,gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities.watch.general
Message-ID <[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.

Thermite.  However, it's obvious that you did it.  I can't think of
any other fast method that doesn't leave blatant physical evidence.

Seth

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