My Secure Dream laptop

In my secure dream laptop:

5. The OS is installed on ROM chips

Hi:

In my secure dream laptop:

1. All IDs -- such as the MAC address [including that of the wireless
adapter] -- are totally dynamic. When the laptop is offed, these IDs
disappear without leaving a trace. When the laptop is switched on, new IDs
are generated.
2. The only ROM is mask-programmed ROM, as well as optical ROMs [CDs,
DVDs,
etc.]
3. The only RAM is twin-transistor RAM
4. The wireless adapter has the longest range allowed by law
5. The OS is installed on ROM chips
6. Twin-Transistor-RAM chips substitute for the HDD
7. The is an optical-disc burner that is compatible with all formats of
optical discs [such as DVD-R, CD-R]

The above laptop is as secure as one can get.


Regards,

Green Xenon

Green Xenon <green_xenon1_at_n_o_s_p_a_m.yahoo.com
wibbled on Tuesday 02 March 2010 17:07

Hi:

In my secure dream laptop:

1. All IDs -- such as the MAC address [including that of the wireless
adapter] -- are totally dynamic. When the laptop is offed, these IDs
disappear without leaving a trace. When the laptop is switched on, ne
IDs
are generated.
2. The only ROM is mask-programmed ROM, as well as optical ROMs [CDs,
DVDs,
etc.]
3. The only RAM is twin-transistor RAM
4. The wireless adapter has the longest range allowed by law
5. The OS is installed on ROM chips
6. Twin-Transistor-RAM chips substitute for the HDD
7. The is an optical-disc burner that is compatible with all formats of
optical discs [such as DVD-R, CD-R]

The above laptop is as secure as one can get.


Regards,

Green Xenon

Why not just get a normal laptop and pack it with thermite? If "they
come,
light the magnesium fuse and run - won't be much left that's readable.

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

The above laptop is as secure as one can get.

Hi:

In my secure dream laptop:

1. All IDs -- such as the MAC address [including that of the wireless
adapter] -- are totally dynamic. When the laptop is offed, these IDs
disappear without leaving a trace. When the laptop is switched on, new IDs
are generated.
2. The only ROM is mask-programmed ROM, as well as optical ROMs [CDs, DVDs,
etc.]
3. The only RAM is twin-transistor RAM
4. The wireless adapter has the longest range allowed by law
5. The OS is installed on ROM chips
6. Twin-Transistor-RAM chips substitute for the HDD
7. The is an optical-disc burner that is compatible with all formats of
optical discs [such as DVD-R, CD-R]

The above laptop is as secure as one can get.


Regards,

Green Xenon

In article <m_-dnWR4yeko2BDWnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d_at_giganews.com>,
Green Xenon <green_xenon1_at_n_o_s_p_a_m.yahoo.com> wrote:

The above laptop is as secure as one can get.

... but it won't achieve the degree of anonymity that you seem to want.

You haven't dealt at all with the issue of radio direction finding. A
wireless card that's as powerful as you say, will be quite easy to
detect at a distance whenever it's associated with a WiFi access
point. A little bit of RDF triangulation, and your position will be
spotted to within a couple of feet. The people searching for you (if
they do) simply won't *care* that your laptop no longer has evidence
that you were the guy they're looking for... they'll know it was you
via radiolocation before they even confront you and you have a chance
to kill the power.

Rather than dream about a super-anonymous laptop, to use to vent your
anger at all of society's quirks, you really ought to work at
finding a healthier way to deal with your anger, and a more
constructive way to deal with the underlying social issues. Simply
dumping your anger onto other people, by provoking them into outrage,
is unlikely to bring you the long-term peace and serenity that you
seem to desire. What you're planning to do is the emotional
equivalent of toxic-waste dumping, crossed with a tantrum suitable for
a five-year-old.

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Hi:

In my secure dream laptop:

1. All IDs -- such as the MAC address [including that of the wireless
adapter] -- are totally dynamic. When the laptop is offed, these IDs
disappear without leaving a trace. When the laptop is switched on, new IDs
are generated.
2. The only ROM is mask-programmed ROM, as well as optical ROMs [CDs,
DVDs,
etc.]
3. The only RAM is twin-transistor RAM
4. The wireless adapter has the longest range allowed by law
5. The OS is installed on ROM chips
6. Twin-Transistor-RAM chips substitute for the HDD
7. The is an optical-disc burner that is compatible with all formats of
optical discs [such as DVD-R, CD-R]

The above laptop is as secure as one can get.


Regards,

Green Xenon

Is there a way around the RDF triangulation?

Is there a way for me to figure if I'm being triangulated before it's too
late?

Is there a way around the RDF triangulation?

Is there a way for me to figure if I'm being triangulated before it's too
late?

In article <VcSdnTOSWY5F9BDWnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d_at_giganews.com>,
Green Xenon <green_xenon1_at_n_o_s_p_a_m.yahoo.com> wrote:

Is there a way around the RDF triangulation?

No, not at all reliably. Anything you do to obscure the RF position
of your laptop, will inevitably decrease its transmission and
reception range... and thus eliminate the whole advantage of having a
strong transmitter.

Is there a way for me to figure if I'm being triangulated before it'
too
late?

The triangulation process can be (and usually is) an entirely passive
process... the people who are hunting for a transmitterdon't need to
transmit any signals at all. Their RDF'ing won't interfere in any way
with what you, or other people are doing via wireless. So, no, you
can't depend on being able to detect that you're being hunted.

Of course, if you see silent-bladed black helicoptors drifting by
overhead, it might be something to worry about.

I've even seen some high-end WiFi access point / router devices on the
market which have multiple transmit/receive antennas, and can do RF
beam-shaping under software control. In effect, the access point
figures out the direction to each client system it's talking to, and
"points" the antenna system electronically in order to give the best
range and sensitivity. In effect, these access points are
"triangulation ready".

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Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
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boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

I've even seen some high-end WiFi access point / router devices on the
market which have multiple transmit/receive antennas, and can do RF
beam-shaping under software control.  In effect, the access point
figures out the direction to each client system it's talking to, and
"points" the antenna system electronically in order to give the best
range and sensitivity.

In effect, these access points are "triangulation ready".

That sounds a lot like the access router has phased-array antennas.

Why not build a similar array into the laptop lid? Once it finds the
router and locks its main lobe onto it, stray signal available for
triangulation would drop drastically. Seekers would have to get lucky
enough to stumble into more than one of the sidelobes to triangulate.

The array would have to be rather larger then the typical couple of
stubs in the laptop lid; it'd probably take up the whole lid, and make
it a bit thicker, but so what; laptops are extremely thin these days.

This would also make signal dropouts less likely due to moving-
object-induced multipath distortion even for isotropic-antenna access
points. The laptop's array would be able to actively track the signal
as it shifted around from the laptop's POV; you know, that alone makes
the idea commercially viable. That would also make the sidelobes shift
around, making triangulation that much more difficult.

I don't think anything you can do would be worth anyone's time and
effort to spy on. You're a fucking nutcase, what the hell is there to
spy on? Your Jon Slaughter archives?

Green Xenon wrote:

In my secure dream laptop:

5. The OS is installed on ROM chips

Not quite that, but the Amiga desktop computer could run its OS -
called Workbench - with full GUI from a single 880KB floppy disk.
The 0.5MB ROM (called 'Kickstart') was an integral part of the
OS. The last major release of Workbench, before the company went
belly up, was v3.0 and took up all of 4MB HDD space fully
installed, but could still run from a single 880KB diskette with
24-bit graphics and 4-channel sound. It was fully plug-and-play
10 years before the plug-and-pray of Windoze 95.


The original IBM PC XT had BASIC in ROM and was useable with no