bugtraq - Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

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Message-ID: <200310082054.h98KsC910206@panix5.panix.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:54:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Seth Breidbart <sethb@...ix.com>
To: rwash@...i.umich.edu
Cc: nweaver@...berkeley.edu, alun@...is.com, cliph@...c.pl,
   lcamtuf@...edump.cx, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, secpapers@...urityfocus.com,
   vulnwatch@...nwatch.org, vulndiscuss@...nwatch.org,
   full-disclosure@...sys.com
Subject: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage


> This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful --
> it is easy to delete large amounts of data quickly.  Imagine you
> hear the feds knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber,
> and let all the light (aka your data) fly out into the room.  Your
> data is gone, permanently.  If the latency is a minute, then it only
> takes a minute to delete everything -- all 6.5 GB of data according
> to your calculations.  Show me another method that can delete 6.5 GB
> a data in a completely unrecoverable manner that quickly.

Thermite.  However, it's obvious that you did it.  I can't think of
any other fast method that doesn't leave blatant physical evidence.

Seth

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