[mdlug] Password of DEATH

[Garry Stahl]

On 06/05/2012 11:56 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

I was not thinking court order, but airport security.  Or rather 
pretense at security.  Fishing expeditions.  Warrentless sezuire because 
they can.


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