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Thread ID: 37268	2003-09-02 08:01:00	1000 Posts - woot! :) - Also something for you file sharers!	PoWa (203)	Press F1

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172527	2003-09-02 23:08:00	We do seem to like round numbers,wonder why?	Thomas (1820)
172528	2003-09-03 06:17:00	> Hmm. Its reasonably common for people to forget their passwords and thats easily proven. Or lose the bits of paper that they wrote them on. :8} How many people have got all their passwords written on a sheet of paper stuffed into a recent PC World magazine on the desk to "hide" it? And then forget which magazine in the pile it was in when the mags get shuffled? Geez, some people are just so dumb.... :8} :p :D [pre][b]Now how did That Girl get online without the password saved in the connection box, I wonder....? ?:| :p	Susan B (19)
172529	2003-09-03 06:20:00	Oh heck, I forgot to say "congrats", PoWa. :-) Have bookmarked your tip, too...... just in case. ;-)	Susan B (19)
172530	2003-09-03 07:07:00	Wow thats interesting about how they can make you reveal the passwords. I don't think that will really work. As has been said you just say you can't remember what it was - or that it was really long and you had to write it down on a piece of paper, which you have now lost. :D I don't think they can prosecute you for losing the password - unless they add a clause in their law, but that would just be wrong. I think this quote from Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is interesting: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." So there you have it. The NZ Govt is passing a law that will be direct violation of our human rights. This program here (www.securstar.com) would be of interest. It encrypts the whole hard drive, and when you boot up the machine it can give a 'Black HDD Fail' message so it looks like the hard drive is dead. Then you just enter in your passwords and your away like normal. I would say it would be extremely difficult to prove there was anything on that hard drive. You could just say the hard drive died on you :)	DMcKenzie (4203)
172531	2003-09-03 09:39:00	you realy wouldn't want to forget your P word would you. Reading that it looks like even Computer Forensics couldn't recover your data. Hey PoWa, you hanging back because you like the look of the number 1000 or, have you logged on under another name. Come on come out and play ;) Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
172532	2003-09-03 12:11:00	But if [large copyright organisation with expensive lawyers] comes after you they will probably already have enough evidence from the internet to get your computer seized. My guess is one of the following would happen: 1) They ask the court to make you turn over your password etc. The evidence they already have would probably support the request. Certain statements in public internet forums wouldn't help either :-). 2) A password isn't too hard to break. The security in pgp comes from the private key which for convience is on your (seized) harddrive. 3) You didn't mention the self destruct button or dead mans switch on your harddrive and live happily ever after.	bmason (508)
172533	2003-09-03 12:16:00	> 3) You didn't mention the self destruct button or > dead mans switch on your harddrive and live happily > ever after. Ahhh... Active KillDisk is one such 'switch' ;-) Switch to nothing-ness I s'pose ;\ ]:)	Chilling_Silently (228)
172534	2003-09-03 13:30:00	Only an idiot would store their private key for PGP on their hard drive. In fact thats about the dumbest thing you can do. Your private key should always be stored on a floppy or Mini Cd-r and should never be written to the hard drive. The password for the PGP disk file is inside the disk file itself so its already encrypted to 256bits. Alternatively you can decrypt a PGP disk with your private key, which is even better security (as long as the private key is not on your hard drive).	DMcKenzie (4203)
172535	2003-09-03 14:01:00	How many years does it take to break an alpha numeric 128 bit encryption? Brute force won't do it within any practical time scale. Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
172536	2003-09-04 04:22:00	Lol Murray, I think I'll keep the 1000 posts for a while - I like the look of it :D I can see you trying to trick me to go over the 1000 :p I think 128bit AES encryption takes a few billion years to brute force crack, so its pretty good if you've got 256bit encryption (PGP standard). Thanks DMcKenzie for the link, very interesting program. Love the idea of a dead hard drive message screen on bootup. :D	PoWa. (3243)
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