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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:33:35
Message-Id: 51493C09.5050302@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 03/20/2013 12:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 03/19/2013 11:28 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
3 >
4 >> Not so much. The idea would be that you could power cycle the
5 >> device to get access to it again. The device would be read for the
6 >> keys at system bootup, but then would shut itself off after a few
7 >> minutes to prevent the keys from being read from disk. (There's
8 >> still the risk of them being read from the memory of the process
9 >> using them, but that's slightly more difficult, and security is all
10 >> about raising the bar.)
11 >
12 >
13 > Eject the USB drive after five minutes? This raises the bar
14 > significantly, to "has tried to send the 'close CD tray' command to a
15 > USB stick before."
16
17 That's sick, wrong and beautiful. I love it. :)

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