Quote: (08-31-2018 02:01 AM)kinjutsu Wrote:
It pretty hard to "plant" any files onto a computer.
The most basic firewalls will catch any uploads onto your system. and alert you.
I read a story about a wife putting some cp on her husbands computer when he was deployed. When the police did their investigation they discovered that the husband was on the other side of the world when it was supposed to have taken place. The looked into the wife as she was the only person to have access. Eventually she confessed to the whole thing.
Ideally you have password protected EVERY computer you own. Full size tower all the way down to that ipod touch you bought used 7 years ago.
In fact it's a very very good idea to throw away all the old electronics you no longer use. Smash them with a hammer and throw them in a dumpster being a busy shopping mall NOT in the garbage behind your house.
With recent revelations about corruption in our FBI/DOJ, I would be more worried about them installing things while they had the computer in evidence and using some CIA hacking tool to make it look backdated. Or hell, even just saying "yep there cp on there".
Your second point is spot on. You should encrypt everything you have. You should also shut down the computer when not in use since if you just put it to sleep/hibernate the HD can be started in some type of emergency mode that makes it easier to bypass the encryption.
My destruction protocol is to reformat multiple times, torch the internals, smash with sledge, obscure s/n, then immerse in salt water permanently.