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A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives
RockDoctor writes "Stories about 'wiped' hard drives appearing on eBay (and other channels) and being stuffed with personably-identifiable data are legion; rarer are spy planes having to land on enemy territory, but it happened in 2001 to a US spy plane over an un-declared enemy (China, and that's a topic in itself). Dark Reading reports the development of a technique to securely wipe a hard drive in seconds, and which is safe for flying. (The safe for flying criterion rules out things like fun with packing the drives in thermite. Also thermiting the drives may not erase the platters to the standard required, which is moderately interesting itself."
What the **** is the US government doing violating Chinese airspace without permission or clearance?
This is an act of war.
Those pilots should be tried as war criminals and summarily shot for being party to start an international conflict.
Compromosing NO FLY ZONES was the same excuse the US gave for invading Bagdad. I think the Chinese should take Los Angeles and San Fransisco... its sitting right there on the coast, just ripe and ready for the taking. Half of them practically built it in the old western times, it belongs to them. Or give it back to the Indians.
Given a multi-billion dollar defense budget, how long do you think it will take to find that 4096 key and decrupt all the hard drives? Maybe a day. Sorry, you are the one that a frickin no-brainer.
China may have different attitudes and morals standards than the US
If by different you mean none.
Your argument is nothing but bullshit moral relativism.
I've got an idea.... why don't you commit a thought crime so you can spend the rest of your life in jail? You'll never have to worry abou living in poverty again! Or better yet get executed, then you won't be LIVING in poverty either.
Or perhaps do you believe in certain inalienable rights?
What's with all this hate mongering against China?
China is the biggest threat in the world to these rights. Calling a spade a spade is not hate mongering. It's living in reality, recognizing the things that are actually happening.
Life is too short to proofread.
well of course, since there are only two possible combinations and both are legitimate.
... etc
in the real world the data you send does not has many possible outcomes and many of those very few are legitimate. If you try 600 times and you get the text:
oyioa2dsi5fuso
nbvsouydgfvs4f
attack at dawn
90s8 asd0shdks
I think it's pretty clear which is the correct messae
being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...