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It’s just that society has much bigger problems than the price of ram sticks.

Like the price of housing, the price of food, transportation…

I don’t find this even worth mentioning, that’s just it.

It’s literally that Simpsons in Japan episode.

So just another day in capitalist society. Nothing to write home about imo.

Thanks! So literally a nothing burger.

I hate YouTube clickbait.

Better if they don’t leave your device in the first place, encryption should always be considered a last line of defence, just because some encryption is unbreakable today, it may be easily broken in the future as breakthroughs in computers and mathematics advance.

Instead of paying for cloud backups just buy some hard drives, it’s cheaper in the long run too.

if you’re using proper encryption it’s going to be difficult or impossible to decrypt the files on the drive, so the data should be secure even if the drive is stolen, copied, etc.

Encryption should always be the last line of defence, encryption that is unbreakable today may be trivially broken tomorrow. Which is why I also I still prefer to overwrite drives with random data instead of just trusting the sanitise command (Even though I know that a big chunk of the data stays unoverwritten as part of the drive’s “provisional area”.

(Which raises another issue that “deleting” a luks keyslot or the whole header doesn’t actually warranty it’s deleted, may have just be moved to the provisional area. So if a key somehow is compromised it becomes nessesary to physically destroy the drive.)

However, when you’re actively using the drive and have files decrypted, and then you lose physical access to your devices, you have a problem. IIRC that’s how they got Ross Ulbricht’s files - monitored him until he unlocked his laptop in a cafe and then grabbed it (and him). If you’re worried about that specific threat profile it makes a little more sense to have an easily accessible physical DELETE EVERYTHING NOW button that only operates when the drive is running.

In that case I rather use something that will reboot the computer and shred the ram as it would serve the same purpose with the bonus that contents can’t also be recovered from ram. Something like an usb drive with a string wrapped around the wrist.

Now, in the situation that the keys have leaked somehow, (like recording the keyboard from afar while the user types the passphrase) then the self-erasing hard drive makes a lot more sense, assuming the user has time to trigger the mechanism.

Now the issue is, that overwriting even a fast ssd takes time, so I’m assuming the device works by destroying or erasing a security chip that holds the keys for the main storage, however the data is still there if the adversary cuts the power before overwriting the whole drive. Ofc encrypted, but like I said before, encryption may be broken tomorrow. A physical or chemical solution that grinds or dissolves the chip somehow seems to me a better option, with the bonus that it can be made to work without electricity.

So, let’s see if I understand, the device only destroys the data after it’s connected to a computer.

So an adversary can just not connect it to a computer and extract the data through alternative means (like unsoldering the chip and reading it directly.

The device should be able to destroy itself either from an internal battery or some physical or chemical mechanism.

The book title and the school insignia give it away, (also one ear is bigger than then other, but that could have been an artistic choice).

Apart from there I can’t tell. A bit of digital touch up and I would be absolutely unable to tell.

I feel that other ppl are better at spotting AI than I.

Electricity

Idk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.

I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit had a secret API for facilitating the creation and management of corporate bots.

Just tell them “I own my own private cloud” and then look smug.

Then I may tell them “this way the CIA (don’t say NSA, older people usually don’t know what NSA is, but they know CIA) or those capitalist companies can’t spy on me”

And I don’t find a need to go into more detail, at this point the conversation has either moved on or they say “but I have nothing to hide” and move on anyway.

Google controls all smartphones, Amazon controls most products that I can’t find locally, Microsoft controls all computers, even if I don’t use windows generally I still have to pay the Microsoft tax.

Every other product I can buy like pants also come from companies that pollute, usually in China.

The problem isn’t exclusively those companies in the pic, it’s every single one of them, those are just bigger.

The problem is fundamentally capitalism and changing from a buying from one big company to a small one only makes so the small company now has funds to pollute more instead.

Yea, gonna stop using things and live naked in the wilderness.

… Which is why we all should immediately switch to post-quantum encryption possibly much weaker against conventional cryptanalysis.

There’s no need to switch, you can just layer it, and should be done asap

Exactly, people don’t seem to realise that higher demand for energy means higher demand for all sources of energy including fussil fuels.

If doesn’t matter if this datacenter runs 100% on renewables if that means that the overall demand on the powergrid increases and now other clients that used to get (a higher percentage of) their power from renewable are getting it from coal, it’s just a green washing shift blame technique.

I’ve never cosplayed as an “infosec home lab data specialist”, but I’ve had many bad personal experiences with used harddrives, drives that were working perfectly fine but failed after few months from several sources.

Well, that’s good to know, I’ve always avoided those drives and tend to pay extra for smaller drives so I can get them new.

Because there’s a rather high likelihood that the HDD has been mistreated and will fail soon, it’s a gamble. Or at least I’ve had bad experiences with used hard drives personally.

If you the seller has warranty and you don’t mind the hassle of shipping back and possibly paying for the return shipping and pray that everything goes smoothly and you actually get the money back or a working replacement then it can be a good option, I personally rather not go through all that stress.

It’s the best tip, buying an used HDD is asking for trouble