POISON PILL

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  SANDY SANDFORT               Reply to:  ssandfort@attmail.com
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Jim says I shouldn't booby-trap my computer because:

 -1 Really, really piss off those investigating you.  Nothing like
    giving people who can make your life a living hell a reason to
    want to make your life hell...

Too late, Jim, if the situations has gotten as far as warrants
and seizures, they are already making my life a living hell.
Investigation my ass; this is war!

He further states:

 -2 Opening yourself up for destruction of evidence and obstruction
    of justice charges in addition to whatever else they may have
    had on you.

Well, I haven't done the relevant legal research lately, but
that's not the way I remember things.  Plus please remember the
subject of this note--POISON PILL.  I not only want my *data*
unavailable to the bastards, I want my *computer* unavailable to
them, too.  And if possible, I would love to have it fuck up
*their data* as well.  Eh...theoretically speaking, of course.

 S a n d y

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Sandy Sandfort writes:

> Well, I haven't done the relevant legal research lately, but
> that's not the way I remember things.  Plus please remember the
> subject of this note--POISON PILL.  I not only want my *data*
> unavailable to the bastards, I want my *computer* unavailable to
> them, too.  And if possible, I would love to have it fuck up
> *their data* as well.  Eh...theoretically speaking, of course.

Simple.  Wire yourself up a peripheral bus card (ISA for PCs or NuBus for
Macs) that contains a software/interrupt triggered relay.  That relay is
wired to a stick of dynamite, an electric match (available in hobby
rocketry stores), and a 9v battery all glued to the peripheral bus card.
If a stick of dynamite is not available, you may use a pipe bomb filled
with flash powder from emptied m-80's.  Then write yourself a boot-up
password program that will trigger the bomb if the wrong password is
entered.  A 10" pipe bomb should make any PC or Mac quite useless in a
matter of microseconds.  For added effect, the pipe bomb may be strapped
to the underside of the hard disk in your computer to make sure that data
recovery is out of the question.


Thug

Well, I have to say that I love this idea!  I have a few suggestions, tho.  How
about we take a copy of the public domain bios source, or disassemble one 
ourselves.  We hack the code a bit...  Then we burn a new prom to install into
our machines.  AND WE EPOXY THE MOTHER TO THE DAMNED BOARD!  We build a card to
stick in our machine which receives a radio signal which contains a decription
key to be supplied to the bios hacks mentioned above.  So we use a protable
radio transmitter to send the password to our machine.  Our bios waits for this
password for use in decripting the filesystem.  If the bios doesn't get this
password, it trashes the cmos and does whatever other mean things it wants to.
Perhapse part of the card could have login in it which would short the power-
supply to the memory bus... shit!  Hypothetically, we have two passwords for
our system, one for the Feds, and one for Honest people.  When the bios receives
the Fed-password, it acts normally, (for a time?) except it also unleashes a 
*nasty* virus from within it's own rom!  This would take "care" of the Fed's 
data in adition to screwing up the machine.

Just my two cents....


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Bombs.  Electro-Magnectic Pulse would be good.  But the only way I know
how to generate one of these is via a nuke... Probably a little over kill.

Blowing things up is nice and all but also lacks style (unless you nuke).

Basically a permently encrypted harddrive would be fine.  Every boot up
you need to enter a password.  If the screen saver kicks in, you have to
enter a password, or it reboots.  Stuff like this.

If you want to, enter the wrong password and it still boots up.  But when
it does, there is a virus running or something else.  Basically, if you
are arrested for stuff, and they confiscate your equipment, they already
are pretty sure of your guilt, if you are guilty or not.  Pissing them off
and destroying things makes you seem more guilty.  Encryption is still
viewed as something you do if you have something to hide.  Why encrypt,
unless you are guilty?

Now that I think about it.  When the wrong password is entered, the
computer should still boot.  But all the files that are encrypted are
deleted from the directories.  And they appear as bad blocks, or something
else.

I'm sure people could go on, and on with this stuff.  Whatever happened to
the Crypto-Stacker stuff?

-Matt
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