[mdlug] Password of DEATH

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 01:21 -0400, Garry Stahl wrote: 
> OK, the gob'ment has sezied yoir laptop and is holding you hostage for 
> the password.  Now you don't have anthung on there really.  (I don't)  
> Nothing critical or irreplacalbe, but dammit, it's none of their business.
> Suggestion, a second password that if entered goes nuclear on the hard 
> drive deleting the thing wholesale without further action.  Better yet 
> it boots to a croot jail screen while deleting eveything in the Home 
> partition (You do have a separate home partition, right)
> Is this doable with ah average Linux distro?

Yes, trivially.

And it would probably be prosecuted as obstruction of justice;  the
concept of spoilation almost certainly applies.

In short - THIS WOULD BE A VERY *VERY* **STUPID** THING TO DO.

And your wrong: if the computer was seized by a court order everything
on it is entirely "their business".  That's what the lay says and what a
court order means.  All information determined not to be related to the
investigation will return to a protected status.
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