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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
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Quote:A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage). It is sometimes referred to as a "virtual RAM drive" or "software RAM drive" to distinguish it from a "hardware RAM drive" that uses separate hardware containing RAM, which is a type of solid-state drive.
Quote:It is possible to store a web cache on a RAM disk and this can improve the speed of loading pages.[2] Due to the volatility of RAM disks, using a RAM disk has privacy advantages.[3]
Store everything on a RAM disk, and if you want it gone, simply turn off the computer. MUCH better than secure file deletion and file overwriting etc, you can flawlessly erase everything.
Disadvantages I see are you would need heaps of RAM, and if the power dies then all your files die. So if you wanted to store something on a RAM disk, maybe you should make a few other RAM backups that are hooked up to a battery. If you're some uber h4xxer or an 3lite super agent or a criminal of some sort then just turn off you're RAM disk if you're caught or rig it up so that it automatically turns off if you don't put in a password at so and so time etc etc, you get the idea.
Honestly, I doubt it'd require much volatile memory (I prefer that to using ram for technical reasons) seeing as I doubt anyone would need to store large volumes of sensitive data.
RAM sticks are already up to the 4GB mark, and I would assume for the most part, the files would mostly be text or small images with steganography and it wouldn't take up much space. Even videos, using the right encoding methods would be small in size and still have respectable quality.
You could easily fit three or four RAM sticks into a 5.25" bay, so assuming 4GB sticks that would be 12-16GB of volatile storage. At least for me, that would be plenty. A home made solution is possible but it'd be much more cost-effective for it to be tailor made. RAM sticks are geared more toward high-speed, not density.
Absentinsomniac Wrote:Seems unnecessary. Encryption still works, for now.
I agree, it isn't all that necessary right now, as like you said, encryption still is quite effective. The only problem though is if you have to manually encrypt a file yourself into a vault, the "ghost" of that file still remains unless you use a HDD scrubber with quite a number of passes. I've heard rumors saying that even then, the authorities or whomever you need to keep it secret from are finding ways to get to that "ghost" file information regardless of scrubbing.
The RAM disk idea is more effective in that arena because of little to no traceable remnants of the file.
Quote:The FBI failed to break the encryption code of hard drives seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha. The operation began in July 2008. According to a report published on Friday (25) by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, after a year of unsuccessful attempts, the U.S. federal police returned the equipment to Brazil in April. According to the report, the fed only requested help from USA in early 2009, after experts from the National Institute of Criminology (INC) failed to decode the passwords on the hard drives.
^ Yea it would. Also, the NSA said they rarely ever have to even attempt to brute force a password to get into encryption. People usually just implement it in a shitty way so it's easy for them to get around it.
Also, since they said they rarely ever have to BF a password, i'm assuming they never have to actually try and crack the actual encryption. Especially since that would be impossible without a quantum computer.
As for your question:
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****Police Disclaimer: Everything I'm about to say is a work of fiction, and is purely for educational and entertainment purposes only.****
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Back in the day I used to hack into servers and look at all of the files on 'em for fun. I'd also try to "root" entire server networks. In other words, gain access to the highest level computer on a network, and control the entire network through that computer. I accidentally hacked into my ISP one time...
Another time I hacked into a low-level employee account on a server security firm. Their job was to keep people from knowing who owns certain websites by changing the who-is info for money.
Anyway, in order to do all of this, I used several different programs and had to try and code others in shitty programming languages. I had hacking text files and passwords and all kinds of incriminating shit spewed all over my computer.
I also had tons of illegal files, files I wasn't supposed to have, and files that I was allowed to have, but would look suspicious if they were discovered on my computer...
Back then, I really needed hardcore encryption, in case I got caught.
At one point, the police picked me and my friend up and he got busted for hacking into an email account. (My friend didn't use a proxy because he didn't think anyone would care...)
I made a habit out of encrypting everything and using all kinds of other security measures in case they got my computer... I haven't kept up with the latest hacking software, and I hardly remember anything when it comes to programming.
I still encrypt the fuck out of my computer, partly out of habit, and partly because I still like to keep questionable content on it. For instance, I keep all kinds of military files, handbooks for shit I shouldn't know how to do, porn that involves girls of a questionable age. (Could be under eighteen, could be over. Meh, better safe than sorry.) And shit like that.
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