[mdlug] Password of DEATH

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
> 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.

Consult a lawyer before you decide to implement something like that.

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