Posts by TreborG2

Re: Extensive delay in return of computers is SOP by PC Plod. Usually the items are also broken...

@macjules - you assume the computers are not laptops, or that he had no battery backup system (fairly inexpensive devices) attached to a desktop style computer.

such an assumption can not be made where a supposed encryption event could occur.

As to the "press of a button" those replying did click a button to do so, and was that some herculean feat to undertake?

*AND* macjules, had the system been a desktop, and had whole disk encryption been employed, simply cutting power means the system boots up, and asks for the password to decrypt the OS or other apps within the system which would cause a failure to boot otherwise.

Re: Net anarchist?

That will be the next step. Some form of gated switch that when triggered remotely will turn a useful usb stick into the destructive force it is now.

Imagine how it would go .. ID ten T user finds usb "storage" dongle in the parking lot, or middle of the grocery store isle.

ID10T picks up device, takes home or to work, plugs in, "hey.. its a USB storage device I picked up for free, awesome!"

Meanwhile, its attempting to install malware, some sort of call home remote via tor.

Later, after infection has made it inward, it destroys itself along with the PC that started the infection.

Next, you hear about company X (sony) going old school, pen and paper whilst they work to clean up.

A Dongle is just a Dongle, until it isn't.

Hide in plain site, at the first risk of detection, destroys itself and its initial attack vector / springboard into a network, just in case you (the hacker) left something that could trace to you. Of course you'd want to scrub drives first or encrypt parts etc, so that any data leaving is encrypted and the only location for the key is the USB that will destroy everything it can when activated.