<div dir="ltr">There's a flaw with your reasoning.<br><br>You're assuming that Big Brother would put a backdoor of some kind into devices like that marked "Secure Deletion". However, if you're going to be Tin-Foil Hat Man you should be assuming that EVERY device has a Big Brother backdoor.<br>
<br>Thus your only real choice is to live in a cave and bang rocks together.<br><br>Jeffrey.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, David Nicol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com">davidnicol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Absolutely not. I would be highly suspicious of using any such drive<br>
for my hypothetical criminal activity, as a drive marketed as having<br>
SD features might /really/ have some kind of covert channel<br>
phone-home-to-Echelon feature allowing the spooks to 0wn the box<br>
remotely. Perhaps interfacing with the pc-speaker-as-microphone<br>
feature.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>
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