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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2010, 08:33:58 AM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on April 22, 2010, 02:24:26 AM
.... I'm less concerned about snooping (though it would still be encrypted just to make them work for it) but uploading 80-100G of photos is a bit prohibitive.

These days, if it's properly encrypted pretty much no one is going to be able to break it.  :cool:
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #26 on: April 22, 2010, 08:38:03 AM »
Guys, the idea isn't to encrypt your whole drive.  Remember these are NOT hacker experts.  They are normally bored/greedy people exploiting their power for entertainment and a vague hope of busting somebody for CP or being able to copy some interesting toons/movies.  Most won't be able to tell whether a drive is using all of it's formatted space or not.

You don't NEED to encrypt everything.  All you need to do is present an 'average', boring, laptop.  Have a few movies, modest music collection, a few games.  

Keep anything sensitive in an encrypted rar or something.  Rename the extension.  

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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #27 on: April 22, 2010, 10:02:24 AM »
Quote from: Firethorn on April 22, 2010, 08:38:03 AM
Rename the extension.  

And/or add the following:

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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #28 on: April 22, 2010, 10:07:27 AM »
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #29 on: April 22, 2010, 10:10:02 AM »
The FacePalmTM moment for me was when I modified a decoy shortcut just now, and instead of clicking "Properties" I double-clicked.   :facepalm:

The message I put in (which I had forgotten about until... well, just a few minutes ago) was "YOU WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS"  :laugh:
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #30 on: April 22, 2010, 10:12:39 AM »
Captaining the failboat today is Dionysusigma....  :lol:
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #31 on: April 22, 2010, 10:14:31 AM »
Quote from: PTK on April 22, 2010, 10:12:39 AM
Captaining the failboat today is Dionysusigma....  :lol:
Well, we're making good time!  :P  =D
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #32 on: April 22, 2010, 03:31:17 PM »
anyone wanting to get a few gigs across the line on a micro SD card would be hard to stop
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2010, 03:42:37 PM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on April 22, 2010, 03:31:17 PM
anyone wanting to get a few gigs across the line on a micro SD card would be hard to stop

I know from personal experience that one of those will survive a trip through the digestive tract.  Well, a dogs digestive tract, at least.  [Don;t ask for details, I'm not giving any.]
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2010, 04:31:23 PM »
Just great... I'm sure the Germans are thrilled to learn of MicroSD's gastric resistance.

Gives a whole new meaning to Scheissevideo...  [barf]

And you can enjoy your smuggled digital contraband with a nice cup of Kopi Luwak coffee.
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2010, 12:24:11 AM »
Yeah, a lot of people prefer Colonbian coffee.
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #36 on: April 24, 2010, 08:38:30 PM »
Quote from: Firethorn on April 22, 2010, 08:38:03 AM
Keep anything sensitive in an encrypted rar or something.  Rename the extension.  

Nope.

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test.txt: RAR archive data, v1d, os: Win32
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #37 on: April 24, 2010, 08:43:28 PM »
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what does that do?  I may have to start flying again for work. And I don't want to buy a "sterile work computer".

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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #38 on: April 24, 2010, 09:13:51 PM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on April 24, 2010, 08:43:28 PM
Tyme

what does that do?  I may have to start flying again for work. And I don't want to buy a "sterile work computer".



Renaming the extension does not hide the nature of the rar file to the OS.
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #39 on: April 25, 2010, 01:37:09 AM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on April 24, 2010, 08:43:28 PM
what does that do?  I may have to start flying again for work. And I don't want to buy a "sterile work computer".

Depending on how closely you expect them to look, I guess you could just have a more-or-less sterile OS on the first partition, and a bootloader on a flash drive that will take it into your "real" OS on another partition.  Using Linux as the real OS will keep the "decoy" Windows from showing the extra partitions unless they actually dig into Disk Management.
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #40 on: April 25, 2010, 11:28:07 AM »
Mind you, I do not surf porn, nor do I follow the SEC's SOP for porn storage.  Its basic work documents, xcel sheets, drilling programs and plans.  Price lists.  Even if someone mirrored my HD, they wouldnt get much unless they were in the Oil and Gas industry.  I just want to jack with the TSA, as much as they jack with us.  For shoots and grins... >:D [popcorn]
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #41 on: April 26, 2010, 12:17:38 AM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on April 25, 2010, 11:28:07 AM
I just want to jack with the TSA, as much as they jack with us.  For shoots and grins...

Create a bunch of files with interesting names, encrypt them, then go back with a hex editor and change a few random characters in each one.

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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #42 on: April 26, 2010, 12:31:17 AM »
You could also use http://www.shadyurl.com/ to help come up with... file names worthy of further investigation.  :angel: =D
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #43 on: April 26, 2010, 12:56:25 AM »
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Re: TSA Will Download Your iTunes
« Reply #44 on: April 27, 2010, 08:20:19 AM »
Quote from: tyme on April 24, 2010, 08:38:30 PM
Nope.
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~% file test.txt
test.txt: RAR archive data, v1d, os: Win32
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1.  TSA goons aren't computer experts
2.  I was assuming a windows machine.  TSA goons generally won't know what to do with Linux/MacOS as is.
3.  I'm not going to rename a large binary file to .txt, I'm going to rename it to .bin, .tmp or something
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