Good, as it should for normal people as well

Absolutely, I was just thinking about how to do it cheap and simple.

There was an old Defcon talk about something similar, how to make a system to physically destroy hard drives using a mechanism inside a server that could be triggered automatically or remotely.

They tried a bunch of things from thermite to acids, but didn’t get anywhere really.

It made me think however…

What about injecting sand into the drives and actuating the read/write head?

I have seen photos of a hard drive crash, where the head grinded off all of the magnetic layer from the platters.

My idea was to inject sand as a grinding agent and use the read/write head as a grinder to do the same thing.

Then I realized that if you are a huge customer, you can probably have custom hard drives on order, these drives could have a dedicated physical grinding arm, designed so that once deployed it would quickly grind the magnetic layer off of the platters.

Now SSD have made these concepts mostly redundant, but still a fun thought experiment.

Ah, yeah, didn’t think of that, good point!

I have seen devices that can allow an American power plug to be transfered from one powered outlet to another, specifically to allow police to capture running servers so the RAM isn’t cleared.

I have also heard of RAM being frozen with liquid nitrogen while powered on to allow later analysis.

The first part is less of a problem in this case as the outlets are different here, but to completely defeat this sort of power manipulation servers can easily be designed with internal switches that releases as the server is pulled from the rack, cutting the power internally.

That also reduces the effectiveness of the second attack, which is easy to reduce further by simply making the case take longer to open.

Sigh, as the global tensions increase, so will the need for computing power for governments.

Cyberdefence is critical for survival, and the threats are just increasing.

Ah, I just had a quick look, and indeed, it is rather interesting, i just woke up in the middle of the night and will check it out further in the morning.

Ah interesting!

I need to check that out, I had no clue of where to start searching.

There was a thread recently which devolved slightly into a war between Lemmy and Piefed.

It made me think about why I am still on Lemmy, since Piefed is supposed to be better…

The issue for me is the UI, I like that lemmy.zip looks like old Reddit, piefed looks rather different and I have yet to find any way to make it look like old reddit.

Cool tech, but the issue with this in warfare is that you paint a shiny line through the air between your recharge point and your drone, giving away the position of both.

The issue I have with GUI and wrapper tools on Linux is that I don’t know how they have implemented the standards, I know several tools that only deals with the basic stuff and leave you high and dry for the advanced stuff.

Which I feel is missing the point, if you have a gui it should support advanced stuff as well as the basic stuff, else you will train your self wrong, and have to unlearn a lot of crap

To be fair, it is a threat to everyone

You can get the following games for €50:

• Turbo Overkill
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• The Orange Box
• Bioshock
• Bioshock 2
• Exo One
• PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+
• Dishonored
• Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-tered

This list is a good mix of awesome games, currently the total price for this looks like €49,88 in Sweden, this is amazing value!

Turbo Overkill - A fun and fast paced arcade FPS in a dystopic 80s futuristic setting.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - one of the best platformers I know, amazing soundtrack, super frustrating at times, but soo much fun!

The Orange Box - Needs no introduction, one sale for €3.90, increadible value.

Bioshock snd Bioshock 2 - Absolute gaming classics, and that is for a very good reason.

Exo One - A bit weird sci-fi game, beautiful and very engaging.

PAC-MAN Championship Edition - Take Pacman, Neon colours, fast synth beat, challenges and an online leaderbord, when these combine you get this super fun game.

Dishonored - A great game, a stealth game with magic powers, a classic!

Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-Tered edition - Do you like destruction physics? Then this game is for you!

So how long untill digital photos are inadmissble in court?

Why would BBG move ditch Windows for their client?

Please ar least try to be realistic with your predictions.

Correction:

There is an ocean of software alternatives, however there are few alternatives that offer a direct alternative to Microsoft when it comes to being able to put the blame on them.

With most open source systems, the buck stops with you.

Now, I know there are companies that offers to take that buck and accept the risk, though they are not plenty when it comes as a realistic competitor to Microsoft.

Then you need to consider what alternatives exist to all third party software you need to run a company, the vast majority only run on Windows.

I work in the IT department of a company in the finance sector, show me an open source alternative to the Bloomberg client that runs on Linux and is approved by Bloomberg with an add-in that is as integrated into Libre Office as the official client is with Excel.

I guarantee that it is the same in basically every company/sector, they all have workflows that are simply not possible without Windows/Office or Microsoft as a whole.

Ok, so you start a new company, with all computers running open source software, Windows/MacOS is banned, that will only last until you notice that you can earn more money, while wasting time and money, while hiring new staff easier by running Windows/Mac.

Would you rather shutdown you company than accept reality and use Microsoft software.

I want open source to win, but ignoring reality is dumb

No worries, shit happens, have a lovely day!

I am not the guy you replied to, I am the guy calling out arrogance for not using AV

This is exactly my point

The reason that Linux systems are less prone to malware is twofold, historically Linux users have been more technical, but foremost due to it’s lower marketshare of desktop users, giving malware devs a lower return on their time writing software.

This is changing rapidly now, less technically skilled people are switching to Linux and more are running it on their desktops.

This makes for a more interesting target meaning more time is devoted to writing malware for Linux.

So, a good AV should now be used ahead of the incoming malware wave, ignoring it and suggesting that other’s do the same is arrogant.

Yeah, that arrogance will hit you sooner or later.

As the popularity of Linux increases, so will the malware situation worsen.