full-disclosure - Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:44:23 +0545
From: Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam@...il.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

Ok, then why not encode the same keywords that these TOOLS look for
with your Markov chains idea and mix it to wipe a 1 TB hdd with alice
chatter-bot idea ?

Again this is all theory :P

On 1/25/10, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:07:57 +0545, Bipin Gautam said:
>
>> It would be intellectual uphill challenge for the EXAMINERS given that
>> someone may have to shift 1 terabyte of data (how many bytes?:) mostly
>> by HUMAN RESOURCE in hope for a ___ in the haystack..........
>
> You *do* realize that there exist numerous tools to automate this scanning,
> so "human resource" means "select the search terms, hit enter, and check
> back
> after lunch".
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/solutions/cofee/default.aspx
> http://www.guidancesoftware.com/computer-forensics-fraud-investigation-software.htm
>
> That's the sort of stuff your disk will most likely be hit with.  The state
> of the art is stuff like "find all erased e-mail from X to Y regarding the
> McClellan situation".
>

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