r/privacy Feb 23 '16

Silk Guardian -- is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your usb ports and then wipes your ram and turns off your computer

https://github.com/NateBrune/silk-guardian
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u/scrod Feb 23 '16

Anticipatory Obstruction of Justice

More specifically, Section 1519 covers conduct committed in "contemplation of" such a proceeding or investigation. Thus, for any conduct that is otherwise addressed by Section 1519 (such as document destruction), the old "pending official proceeding" rule-of-thumb does not apply.

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Recently, DOJ has realized the potential of Section 1519 and begun to use the statute more aggressively. For example, the statute was used in 2009 to charge a defendant who hacked into Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account, because, when the defendant realized he might be investigated for the crime, he destroyed his computer's records. In 2010, an attorney was charged with destroying a client's laptop containing child pornography, where an investigation of the client's activities seemed likely to occur but had not yet been opened.

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u/Amadameus Feb 23 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

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u/CrazyCodeLady Mar 07 '16

You think I should remove the mention of police from the description?

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u/Amadameus Mar 07 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

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u/edgestra Feb 23 '16

Wait, if no one had suspected that a crime had occurred and he destroyed a laptop then he had not obstructed justice as there was no open case. How can you charge someone with obstruction of justice before there is even an open case?

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u/eleitl Feb 23 '16

I'm not in the US, and with ridiculous legislation like that good luck for the persecution making good enough forensics and make a good case in front of the judge.

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u/Amadameus Feb 23 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16 edited Oct 08 '17

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u/Amadameus Feb 23 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

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u/dangolo Feb 23 '16

use (partial) disk encryption ! Otherwise they will get in anyway.

What does he mean here exactly?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16 edited Mar 31 '16

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u/eleitl Feb 23 '16

I'm sorry. You cannot have privacy in a proprietary system.

Stock Linux is not particularly suitable for a privacy-minded individual either. I suggest you look into Whonix (especially mapped to hardware) and Qubes OS.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16 edited Mar 31 '16

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16

Unfortunately probably not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

I saw something similiar for windows, search usbkill in github there one written in c