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Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic
RegardsSJ writes "Robert X. Cringley on his PBS website mentions a $479 wireless, fanless 120gb network storage/file server appliance (running linux) in his column. He thinks the killer app for this one is for keeping your porn storage hidden, if you're busted by the cops. I think his concept is weak, given the wireless signal is traceable (security through obscurity?), WEP is breakable, and the fact that you have to have the thing plugged in somewhere... The company selling the device is martian.com. Anybody use one?" Now that it's possible to stream audio and video through various boxes originally serving other purposes (like TiVo and PlayStation2), this looks like a good companion piece, too.
Why not just stuff it under your mattress? They'll never find it there...
I am over here... now I am back over here!
Hide the porn from the cops? It's more like hide the porn from the wife.
hm... where did I hide my HD from the police again? :-(
Thats what I thought but then I thought maybe *HIS* kind or porn is illegal then it all made sense.
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Why don't you just put up in your neighbors attic? That's obscurity...I'd put it in the trunk of my car, since that appears to be where I keep half my crap anyways..
1) Buy wireless AP 2) Get fast-assed broadband 3) Encourage neigbours to buy wifi cards to access your broadband connection And the rest writes itself!
After all, the cops, even though they have a warrant and some sort of indication that you have illegal material, will probably just give up without looking in the attic. I mean, who would think someone might hide stuff up there? I learned this trick from the "porn computer in the attic article."
They'd probably nail you as an arms smuggler for "exporting" WEP.
> A more realistic application of your suggestion woul dbe to place this box outside your residence. If you live in an
> apartment building, you could put it in a hallway or above some ceiling panels somewhere. If it is confiscated, there is
Want to tell me where you live so I can come by and steal it?
> no issue of possession to tie it to you. This follows the precedent set by clandestein farmers who grow illegal crops on
> National Park property.
"Personally, I keep my hard drive in my pants.. to each their own I guess. :o)"
Disadvantages of having a hard drive in your pants.
1-Warrenty returns are a bitch.
2-You get funny looks everytime you access your hard drive.
3-If it's an IBM Deskstar? You get even stranger looks when a loud screeching, clicking noise comes from your pants. See #1
4-"Chesnuts roasting" is not just limited to Christmas. See #3
5-The comment about how it's just your hard drive winding up get old after having been repeated for the 100th time.
6-Not being able to go out in public without people making comments like "Is that a hard drive in your pants, or you just glad to see me?"
7-The SCSI people laughing at your IDE.
8-The cache is bigger than everything else.
9-That confounded 12v battery you have to run it off of.
10-You learn to loath metal detectors.
My wife would demand that they also take the 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486 and pentium part machines in the garage. Excellent way to get a house cleaning. Do they charge storage? I have about 150 part machines plus monitors, etc, that should really go to the junkyard, but the garbage men refure to take them.
I've got some porn. Actually, quite a lot of it. It's on my hard drive.
Now the cops can threaten me with revealing my secret porn empire and I'll just yawn and say "old news, and nobody cares."
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