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.

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