gjon 
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Concern over blackmailing from software companies that program their
software to phone home and provide listings of pirates has become an
ever growing cause for concern. Some ideas have been discussed about
how to protect yourself and I thought they were some good
advice/tutorials that provide valuable advice on how to protect
yourself from attack. Please leave feedback/advice/ideas on how to
better protect our Four S community members. Beware of boobytrapped
software.
The following is borrowed from a post I made in thread:
http://www.4-s.org/forum/thread.php?threadid=33763&sid=
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What should we do to protect ourselves.
Don't keep the software on your main pc. Whether you think you can
switch drives quickly or delete data before its too late, you'll more
than likely be wrong. If the feds show up, they are gonna take all your
computer stuff they can find and prolly while your not there to resist.
What I do and recommend is that you have a second box set up with all
your pirated stuff. This box can be a cheap box that just acts as
storage space. (You could also install your software on that box too,
especially if you decide to make it a decent one and use remote desktop
to use the appz on it just like you were at that computer. I love this
set up, and remote desktop.) You should set up a wireless lan and keep
the storage computer hidden somewhere. With no wires to find, you will
hopefully deceive the invaders that you only had one computer on a
wireless connection to your modem. This way, you can access your stuff
without the hassle of moving hardware or switching drives to hide,
things you may not get a chance to do when you get busted. The feds
will grab your computer and hopefully never find your hidden box.
But for just in cases...
I think a good inclusion to this set up is a huge electromagnet that
you have wired to a secluded light switch that you could flip the
switch on when the raid hits to be sure your drives are wiped on the
hidden box.
You could also probably just use an external drive and hide that if the
box expense is too much, but you would still have to hope you could
hide it in time and hope you never leave it out. But also some appz may
not install and run with full functionality on that seperate drive,
especially if it keeps getting removed...
But if you do have a great hiding spot, its a safer bet to keep your goodies seperate from the target machine.
Hope that helps,
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This post has been edited 3 time(s), it was last edited by gjon on 07-05-2004 16:36.
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Protect your Piracy
07-05-2004 16:29
