full-disclosure - Re: Stealthier Internet access

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimBJHoW1h-MzJuquMjHdeujzB6hVDrrZmt985i7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:24:12 -0700
From: BMF <badmotherfsckr@...il.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Stealthier Internet access

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:01 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> It's not worth worrying about wiping the remapped sectors on a disk - even an
> older 40G drive has some 80 million sectors on it - so even if you have a few
> hundred sectors that have remapped due to I/O errors, it's still literally
> a one-in-a-million shot that anything incriminating is in the sector.

If Bipim is storing his nekked self-portraits on the HD it is very
possible that something incriminating would be stored entirely within
the one bad sector.

BMF

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