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Even if using Windows, can fully encrypt mobile devices (incl whole hard drivers on laptops)... | 129 comments | Create New Account

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Why did the FBI have this data in the first place?

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 11:21 AM EDT

Who were they spying on, that they needed a million (or two
or five or ten) device identifiers?

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Why did the FBI have this data in the first place? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT
- Why did the FBI have this data in the first place? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 12:54 PM EDT
  - Why did the FBI have this data in the first place? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 04:32 PM EDT

Even if using Windows, can fully encrypt mobile devices (incl whole hard drivers on laptops)...

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 12:17 PM EDT

For example:

See:
Truecrypt

Main Features:
Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.
Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
More information about the features of TrueCrypt may be found in the documentation.

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Not helpful if trojan virus (or remote user) downloads the files to another computer... n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 12:19 PM EDT

Blame this one on Oracle - encryption or linux might not have helped

Authored by: bugstomper on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 04:55 PM EDT

Anonymous said they used a Java vulnerability to get in. See the other News
Picks article on Oracle releasing a security patch this week that contains
another security hole.

The FBI laptop could have had a fully encrypted disk, run Linux, and that would
not have helped if the machine was infected via cross-platform Java malware that
runs while the encrypted disk is open.

Even if the file is also encrypted separately (and why do that if the entire
disk is encrypted?) the malware could install a user-mode root-kit that would be
enough to grab the data when the file is open, or do nasty things with PATH and
so on to trick the laptop's owner into using sudo access to install a real
rootkit. Linux is no defense against a targeted attack once the machine is
compromised by something like the Java vulnerability.

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