There's a flaw with your reasoning.
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.
Thus your only real choice is to live in a cave and bang rocks together.
Jeffrey.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely not. I would be highly suspicious of using any such drive for my hypothetical criminal activity, as a drive marketed as having SD features might /really/ have some kind of covert channel phone-home-to-Echelon feature allowing the spooks to 0wn the box remotely. Perhaps interfacing with the pc-speaker-as-microphone feature.