encrypted home directory / wrapped-passphrase

[Basil Chupin]

On 23/07/12 18:20, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 03:37 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> And, depending on which part of the world you are living in, there are
>> laws which REQUIRE you (under the penalty of having your genitals
>> removed with wire-cutters [if you are male that is :-) ]) to provide the
>> government authorities (you know the ones) with the password you have
>> used to encrypt your zip file *OR*, repeat OR, your *whole* (file)
>> system for that matter! (There is discussion about this but which I
>> won't go into here; but have a look in the Wikipedia, for example, about
>> this subject of encryption).
>
> Being grey haired and lazy, I've always looked askance at going the 
> encryption route. I am just wondering though, if I had something that 
> really needed double-naught protection can a CD or DVD be created with 
> an encrypted file system, with the aforementioned Top-Secret files, in 
> a ISO burn?

No idea but I assume that the creation of such a CD or DVD would be of 
little trouble. And why not? Simply use encryption when creating such an 
ISO CD or DVD. Piece of cake I would think.

>
> If the storm troopers were breaking down your doors, I guess you could 
> just snap the CD/DVD in half to really screw them over when they try 
> to glue an encrypted broken-in-half media back for recovery purposes.

Ah, now is where you have gone off the rails I am afraid.

Firstly, have you ever tried to snap a CD or a DVD in half? Try it :-) . 
The damn things are unbreakable unless you have bionic arms and hands :-) .

You wanna destroy a CD/DVD really quickly then you need a microwave 
oven, with its own power supply 'cause Oceania's Big Brother people 
would probably cut your power before they comes 'round "knocking" on 
your door, which will zap your CD/DVD in a matter of less than 5 seconds 
when set to HIGH :-) .

You remember the times during, and well before, when Bill Clinton was 
the Prezz when the U-S-of-A used to harrass the Chinese by flying planes 
close to or into the Chinese air space until one time when one of the 
U-S-of-A planes struck the wing of one of the Chinese jets sent to 
intercept the U-S-of-A plane and the Chinese jet crashed killing the 
Chinese pilot. (The U-S-of-A paid a hansom (?)$US7 million in 
compensation to the pilot's family.) Anyway, this clash of planes also 
caused the U-S-of-A spy plane to be brought down in some southern part 
of China and the Chinese captured it intact. The point here is that the 
plane was carrying highly secret tech equipment on board - and the crew 
on board did not get the chance to destroy the data on the HDDs used by 
the onboard computer equipment.

Now, we ALL know that the military have sooper-dooper pooper-scoopers to 
destroy sensitive information. You can get them online in fact, but be 
prepared to sit back for a few days while the "scrubber" does its work :-)

I wonder if all the U-S-of-A planes now carry microwave ovens onboard? :-) .

(The other interesting part of this story is that following that 
incident no U-S-of-A plane ever again harrassed Chinese air space.)


> Then bite down hard on the cyanide tablet embedded in your left rear 
> molar ...for Queen and Country. <cackles> 00-Ric

....and then lie back and think of England :-) .

But hold on, in your case it's supposed to be Obama, or Romney (Joseph 
Smith bless him)?

Also, I thought that in "your" case it would be "for truth, justice and 
the AMERICAN way." rather than, "for Queen and Country.":-)

(Have any spare cyanide pills in the cupboard?)

BC

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