i am wondering if anyone on here knows of software (free or paid..preferably free) that can do the following.
allow you to enter some other word that ISNT you password on the login screen and then proceed to wipe the drive. probably throw up a kernel panic screen to make it seem plausable...kinda like the opposite of a "safe word"..instead of stopping the whipping it puts a gun in its mouth and pulls the trigger.
this would be very nice as a last resort to being forced to login to the computer under duress (i.e. unwarranted searches by police at border crossings and what have you)
im not a lawyer but if they want the computer it needs to be seized and it will be forensically analyzed by a certified computer examiner. if they think (they usually KNOW first) i have child porn they would NOT ask me to log into it. they would take the hard disks out and examine them on a fred system or something with a write blocker. besides, i doubt a tsa agent is maintaining proper chain of custody.
my friend had this happen to him (was stopped for no reason as usual at border crossing) and they wanted to search everything. his home dir is filevaulted so u have to log in...but they convinced him to do it. nothing came of that.
while we dont need an argument of the legality of wiping the data if you are asked for it...having/knowing the password is a liability...they could social engineer it out of you or use legal means to make you give up the PW...if the drive is destroyed then its all moot. you can give them all the passwords they want.
i carry proprietary information from/about my company and its strategies. if it came down to it i would GLADLY and without hesitation destroy my macbook pro before i let it leave my hands to be examined (like TSA at airport, i would wipe the drive in a heartbeat if they asked to examine it) its not like im shouting at anyone saying they cant look in my laptop. just if they asked to go through my documents or whatever i would be like "sure" and then enter the "safe-word" and then the laptop would be toast. "dunno what happened...it must have a virus or something. its been running alittle weird the past few days"
most everything is truecrypted/file-vaulted on my laptop but it would be nice to have one last little boobietrap to "salt the earth" so to speak.
i could probably make some script handle this but i am wondering if anyone else knows of something. no, a password manager isnt what im looking for.
i personally refuse to obey arbitrary commands and rules for no reason, which is why i wont let someone dig through my stuff.
sooo...anyone got any ideas? if there isnt anything out there i could make a shell script that does something like this probably. if i did i would surely release it.
allow you to enter some other word that ISNT you password on the login screen and then proceed to wipe the drive. probably throw up a kernel panic screen to make it seem plausable...kinda like the opposite of a "safe word"..instead of stopping the whipping it puts a gun in its mouth and pulls the trigger.
this would be very nice as a last resort to being forced to login to the computer under duress (i.e. unwarranted searches by police at border crossings and what have you)
im not a lawyer but if they want the computer it needs to be seized and it will be forensically analyzed by a certified computer examiner. if they think (they usually KNOW first) i have child porn they would NOT ask me to log into it. they would take the hard disks out and examine them on a fred system or something with a write blocker. besides, i doubt a tsa agent is maintaining proper chain of custody.
my friend had this happen to him (was stopped for no reason as usual at border crossing) and they wanted to search everything. his home dir is filevaulted so u have to log in...but they convinced him to do it. nothing came of that.
while we dont need an argument of the legality of wiping the data if you are asked for it...having/knowing the password is a liability...they could social engineer it out of you or use legal means to make you give up the PW...if the drive is destroyed then its all moot. you can give them all the passwords they want.
i carry proprietary information from/about my company and its strategies. if it came down to it i would GLADLY and without hesitation destroy my macbook pro before i let it leave my hands to be examined (like TSA at airport, i would wipe the drive in a heartbeat if they asked to examine it) its not like im shouting at anyone saying they cant look in my laptop. just if they asked to go through my documents or whatever i would be like "sure" and then enter the "safe-word" and then the laptop would be toast. "dunno what happened...it must have a virus or something. its been running alittle weird the past few days"
most everything is truecrypted/file-vaulted on my laptop but it would be nice to have one last little boobietrap to "salt the earth" so to speak.
i could probably make some script handle this but i am wondering if anyone else knows of something. no, a password manager isnt what im looking for.
i personally refuse to obey arbitrary commands and rules for no reason, which is why i wont let someone dig through my stuff.
sooo...anyone got any ideas? if there isnt anything out there i could make a shell script that does something like this probably. if i did i would surely release it.