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From: iceman@Apple.COM (Ice)
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Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality)
Keywords: Rob Lowe gerbils accident? you be the judge
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Date: 14 Sep 90 20:44:16 GMT
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|> (Curt Sampson) writes:
|Sounds like a lot of trouble to me.  Why not just take your infomation and DES
|encrypt it with any of the popular packages that do this (such ask PKZIP, which
|will compress it while you're at it)?  Then just conveniently "forget" the
|password.  If you want to hide it a little better you might write a program
|that will attach it to the end of a .EXE file, so that it looks like just
|another overlay.

  It is one thing to talk about conveniently forgetting your password,
and quite another thing to say that when the SS guys have you handcuffed
to your sofa describing your upcoming prison term.  I personally know that
in such a situation I would find that my memory was working pretty well.
If the SS KNOWS that the files are encyrpted, they will lean on you.
Better to disguise them, via your overlay idea or whatever.
 
  As a standard security measure, I rewrote parts of the Resource and File
Managers on my Mac.  Files created under the modified system look like
junk to the old system, but the new system can read the old files.  Thus,
I do most of my daily work under the old system, but when I am doing very
sensitive work, I boot off a floppy that installs the appropriate toolbox
patches, and -presto!- text files appear where there was only garbage'd
resource files before.  Nice and transparent, and even a Mac Hacker would
write off the "encrypted" files as junk, since the normal OS can't even
read them.

  :-) As for SS-proof backup, I recommend taking your valuable text files
and posting stories to alt.sex.bondage that have the data encoded in them
via the first word of each sentence, first char of every word
(except 'a' and 'the'), etc.
That way, you can be sure to get your data back by going to any NetNews
site and downloading stuff from the story archives :-)!  

=short example=
Samuel's erotic carresses ravaged the exquistely taunt stomach, each raking 
violently into crying Eve, gyrating openly, her orgasm making every
neural-receptor open wide.   

  Hey, it worked for those Rose-Cross fellows!  Perhaps someone could write
an a.s.b. auto-encryptor - you give it the text file, it turns it into an
a.s.b. story.  I can't imagine the algorithm would be too difficult.

 -ice

"Um..."  
  - Zippy the pinhead