Disguised USB flash drive at the border
Dec 15, 2008 | 1:58 pm
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Dec 16, 2008 | 12:56 am
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Dec 16, 2008 | 5:50 pm
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I'd personally rather carry one of these, just for the fun they'd have after they ask for your password and you unfortunately give the wrong one a few times.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/99f1/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/99f1/
Dec 16, 2008 | 7:29 pm
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I'd personally rather carry one of these, just for the fun they'd have after they ask for your password and you unfortunately give the wrong one a few times.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/99f1/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/99f1/
Dec 16, 2008 | 7:43 pm
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Dec 16, 2008 | 7:46 pm
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Originally Posted by PhlyingRPh
Don't intelligence agencies have ways to get the information out even if you don't provide them witth the password?
Personally, I'd probably bet on the fact that the US government could crack it in relatively short order. Or I've just been watching too many episodes of X-Files.
Dec 16, 2008 | 9:04 pm
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There isn't a computer in existence that could brute force even 128 bit AES at this time in a reasonable amount of time (like 1 lifetime), let alone 256 bit. If weakness is found in the encryption algorithm or if they get lucky with a dictionary attack, they might be able to get in much sooner.
If the chip physically fries, there's not much they can do. Even if they can somehow resurrect the chip, they'd still have to break the encryption.
Dec 16, 2008 | 10:32 pm
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